Reloading Tips & Tricks

As you quickly learn from shooting USPSA on a regular basis, there is both a cost savings and an accuracy/reliability benefit with reloading your own ammunition. As a benefit of membership, we have a rotating schedule of brass pickup from the range each week. Members can notify us to have their name added to the Brass List and when it's your turn, the brass from that night's event is bagged and you get to take it home with you. Reloading is often about the management of components and as such we are linking a few items here that have proven useful to some of our members.

Components

This link downloads a zipped Microsoft Excel document that you can use to plug in the costs from your reloading components to determine how much your reloads cost. It's not critical information but it has helped many of us get a better handle on justifying the jump from purchasing factory ammunition by the box to investing in a nice blue Dillon.

Brass Weights

  • All weights are uncleaned fired cases with the primer remaining.
  • Individual case weights were derived using an average of mixed brass weights.
Caliber Grains Each Cases Per Pound Pounds Per 1K
9mm 59.46 117.7 8.5
.38 SPL 68.00 102.8 9.7
.40 S&W 70.10 99.9 10.0
.357 Mag 78.30 89.4 11.2
.45 ACP 89.58 78.1 12.8
.223 95.28 73.5 13.6
.44 Mag 114.38 61.2 16.3
.50 BMG 865.26 8.1 123.5
1 Gallon Freezer Bags
Caliber Pounds Count
9mm 15.6 1836
.40 S&W 12.2 1219
.45 ACP 11.4 890
.223 11.0 809
5 Gallon Bucket
Caliber Count
9mm 8500 - 9000
.40 S&W 7000 - 7500
.45 ACP 3800 - 4000