Never thought about this until today I was separating some 9mm cases and had about 20 aluminum cases in the batch. They look like they have standard primers, can they be reloaded? Wallacem
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Reloading aluminum cases?
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i would not but thats me i hear of people reloading steel cases , im not doing that either , i dont think it would be worth taking a chance
It is physically possible to reload them. However, it is cosidered dangerous to do so. Aluminum does not have the same metallurgical properties as brass. It does not like to be reshaped after being heated, and it is weaker after being used just one time.
Not me! Just consider your personal costs ie; family etc. Just read the Manuals dude!
Interesting!
I haven't really paid a lot of attention to aluminum cases lately but I could swear when they first became popular they had Berdan primers in them?
in any case to me its not worth the efford to even bend over and pick the stuff up much less try to reload it.
I haven't really paid a lot of attention to aluminum cases lately but I could swear when they first became popular they had Berdan primers in them?
in any case to me its not worth the efford to even bend over and pick the stuff up much less try to reload it.
Some of the guys at the club had donenit to see how well they standup. Usually only one time then trash.
I've reloaded a few here and there before realizing they weren't nickel.
I found one in a box I was shooting just the other day and it shot just like every other round.
I wouldn't pick it up to reload it though and I wouldn't load one on purpose.
Even brass gets weary after resizing time and again and it's meant for this purpose, aluminum and steel is certainly not ideal.
You can easily picture steel being harder to resize, I think aluminum is too.
I'd imagine steel would blow out in a case where the brass would have stretched, I wouldn't have much faith in the aluminum either.
SHTF - Load it, otherwise leave it lie.
I found one in a box I was shooting just the other day and it shot just like every other round.
I wouldn't pick it up to reload it though and I wouldn't load one on purpose.
Even brass gets weary after resizing time and again and it's meant for this purpose, aluminum and steel is certainly not ideal.
You can easily picture steel being harder to resize, I think aluminum is too.
I'd imagine steel would blow out in a case where the brass would have stretched, I wouldn't have much faith in the aluminum either.
SHTF - Load it, otherwise leave it lie.
On another board I am on a guy did it as an experiment . they all lasted through 1 reload , after 5 almost all were split . They can be reloaded . I would not load them hot but for range plinkers they will do .
Brass is so cheap and plentiful in calibers I have to ask "why?"
