Reloading steel cases.

[victorcharlie]

I had about 4 wolf brand 45 acp steel cases mixed in with some range brass I picked up at the local gun club.

I've read this is re loadable but never tried it until this last reloading session.

The primer was a little stiff during while removing it during full length full length resizing, but other than that the operation went fine.

The ammo fired fine.

As the cases are steel, would they possibly damage a carbide die?

Any other negatives?

I'm not going to reload steel cases unless the supply of brass cases dries up but it's nice to know it can be done with pistol cases with no more effort than brass cases.

Anyone else try steel?

[stimpylu32]

I haven't loaded any personally but did read an article some time back were it was done using Wolf steel cased 45 auto , they used a load that was mid range to see just how many loads they could get from the cases .

If I remember correctly they started to loose cases after 2 or 3 loadings from splits at the top of the case , and they stopped the test at 10 loadings but still had over 50% of the cases left .

Personaly I would use some case lube even when using carbide dies just as an added precaution .

I have run a few steel cases in .223 Rem into a FL Sizing die just to see what would happen , could not find ant difference between steel and brass as far as measurements go .

stimpy