How do you guys keep track of brass firings?

[EastHumboldt]

I’ve been marking the head with a tiny center punch dimple, but wondering what other people do?

 

[wyosam]

I keep them in ammo boxes by batch, and try to remember to keep a tally on the load card.


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[N2TRKYS]

I don’t waste my time worrying about it.

 

[wapitibob]

separate trays

 

[waspocrew]

Usually a bag or the ammo boxes clearly marked with # of firings.

 

[Flyjunky]

I keep them in ammo boxes by batch, and try to remember to keep a tally on the load card.


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Same here. Each box has a piece of tape on it that we mark with a sharpie and on the reloading bench we have old plastic yogurt tubs with the corresponding number of shots they get dumped into.

 

[Wolfshead]

I put them in zip lock bags and mark the number oof times they’ve been shot.

 

[TaperPin]

I’ve used a scribe (nail) to scratch a faint line from the primer outward - fast to apply and easy to read. Usually I’m not vibrating cases to clean, so even a sharpie line on the case head lasts the life of the case. Any way it’s done is a pain in the butt, so to simplify life I’ve started keeping some once or twice fired brass for hunting, and all the others aren’t tracked, but tossed out when a head separation line starts to be visible.

 

[JF_Idaho]

I usually work with 100 or 200 pieces of brass for a given rifle/load. Keep them in separate ammo cases marked with number of firings. Shoot through all pieces before prepping and re-marking.

The pay sucks, but it's honest work.

 

[HGL]

I usually put new lots of brass into 50 round ammo boxes and mark the outside of the box as I go.

It hepls calm my OCD, ha.

 

[gentleman4561]

I buy brass 300 at a time, I shoot through all 300 then start over.

I have tubs in the shop labeled (6CM - once fired, 6CM - clean, 6CM - ready to load).

By cycling through a full batch of brass it makes it pretty easy to keep track.

 

[bradmacmt]

This - and I anneal every 5th loading and keep track of that as well.

I put them in zip lock bags and mark the number of times they’ve been shot.