After all the bulk loading I've done in the last year and a half, I'm trying to reduce my inventory of assembled ammo. Lately I've been pairing bullets with primed and flared cases to make loading very quick when I do get around to it. Over the last week I've created loading packs with bullets and primed, flared cases:
500x 9mm brass with 125 grain JHPC bullets.
500x .38 special brass with 125 grain TCFP bullets.
400x .44 magnum brass with 200 grain RNFP bullets.
100x .45ACP brass with 200 grain RNFP bullets.
I would like to have done 200x more in the .45 ACP, but I'll need to clean some brass first.
A couple of the PPU .44M cases I flared had a neck split. This is not terribly surprising since these cases are longer than average, and I've never bothered to trim them, so with the dies set up for other cases they get flared and crimped more than the other cases. I've also probably reloaded some of these cases several times. Still have plenty of unloaded cases that haven't seen as much use, but it reminded me that I have the 1K pieces of virgin Starline .44 magnum I got last winter. Maybe I should deburr the flash holes, check the lengths and trim long ones (if any). That's such a chore, though, and I'm not sure if deburring the flash holes has a measurable effect on consistency in .44 magnum cartridges.
