How do you guys keep track of brass firings?

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.
 
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.
 
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.

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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.
 
Why would you bother counting?
The brass is either ok or it isn’t

This is the most accurate answer. Doesn’t really matter. I keep track of some for reasons I don’t understand, but others I’ve lost count and stopped caring. In some cases I’ll take a case or 3 with a new barrel and put a bunch of firings on them to see how a load is going to pan out in terms of brass life if I’m on the warmer side. I think I’ve got 223 ackley brass that must be approaching 30 cycles, but lost count long ago. 400 Lapua cases started with a new barrel and the 1st replacement barrel for that one is getting long in the tooth (or throat I guess).


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