How important is this?

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I cleaned and anealed about 150 pieces of 30x47 Lapua brass. 50 pieces of the brass had 20+ shots fired through it and the other 100 had 5 or less shots. I did all the steps of cleaning, trimming, uniforming the primer pockets and then annealing, keeping them all seperated.

Then while I was at work my wife decided she didnt like them sitting where I had them so she gathered them all up and threw them in a box TOGETHER.

Now my problem is I have some brass with 20 shots and some with hardly any shots fired through them after fire forming and since I cleaned and anealed them I can't tell them apart. Even the primer pockets are tight on all of them.

I have a match coming up soon and really dont have time to get new brass and go through all the steps to get them ready.

How much will shooting mixed brass effect accuracy? I know it has already hurt my confidence.
Thanks.
 
I think it's OK

But that's just me. Damn the torpedoes......

BUT !!

If your confidence is shaky and winning is important......stay home and make new cases.
 
Wilbur said:
But that's just me. Damn the torpedoes......

BUT !!

If your confidence is shaky and winning is important......stay home and make new cases.
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Thanks Wilbur, Winning is not really that important to me because it probably wont happen just yet. I dont mind if I dont shoot as well as some of the others, but I want it to be because I didnt shoot as well, not because of a stupid reloading mistake on my part.

I am fairly new at this (by comparison) and feel it would be disrespectful to "expect" to win this soon given some of the guys that shoot beside me. I just say "with enough trigger time it will eventually happen". If I reach what I feel is my potential at this point in my BR career I am happy. However I still get really aggrevated if I do something stupid and I knew it was stupid when I did it. If that makes sense.

Kevin Jones
 
Ed Watson and I had a discussion about sorted and weighed cases one time. He told me to bring some used cases to him at his camper at the supershoot. He pulled out a half gallon containor with cases in it...he throught my case in the bunch, mixed them up with his hand, pulled some out and commenced to loading and shooting them in my rifle. I loaded and shot some new cases in the same rifle...guess what...I got a big butt whooopinnn. But then again...Ed could have beat me if he was throwing rocks. I still feel more confident with fresh, same lot cases for a match but it's maybe just mental. I do believe there is a slight difference but slight is the key word.

Hovis
 
nonliberal;I am fairly new at this (by comparison) and feel it would be disrespectful to "expect" to win this soon given some of the guys that shoot beside me. I just say "with enough trigger time it will eventually happen". If I reach what I feel is my potential at this point in my BR career I am happy. However I still get really aggrevated if I do something stupid and I knew it was stupid when I did it. If that makes sense. Kevin Jones[/QUOTE said:
Back in 96 or 97 when I started benchrest shooting a friend of mine and I went to our first SS. By the 3rd. day my friend was in 2nd. place. I admit he didn't finish there, but he did finish high up.

Moral is -- always expect to win! :)

JimP
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That would be nice but I re-trimed them all before anealing. One thing I can slightly notice in sunlight is the older ones seem to have a little more scratches in the web area from going through the die more often. I might be able to get out a magnifying glass so I can see them better and sort like that.

If not, I will just shoot them and assume it wont be a problem. Its for HBR so the little bit of difference it could make should still be within the 10 ring I would think.
 
Huh!!

What I want to know is what my girlfriend was doing at your house...?
This sounds like something I would experience!!!
It's impossible to make everything "bullet-proof" !
 
A good friend no longer with us came over one day and asked if I would shoot some of his bullets in my rail. The cases I had been using were now consigned to another rifle, for practice. I agreed if I could find some cases.
Looking thru my tub of old cases, I located 10 not to badly beaten up.
When I loaded them, some bullets seated much looser, so I marked the
bullets with red and the tighter ones with blue. I did not want to reset my seater. but A quick calculation took me the wrong way as I would later find out.
D-4198 for a load as I didn't want to use my GI-322.
The first 3 shots formed a hole, so I just keep shooting. It turned out
a .365 at 200 for 10 shots. My friend was happy and I happier yet.
wanting to know more, I looked these cases over. Some had
.078 flasholes and some .066. some had loose necks and some much tighter.
It also turned out that I was .040 something away from the lands.
The red and blue shared all corners of the group.
With all that was wrong, something was right
 
I see and hear things like that all the time. Every time I buy a new measuring tool or gadget and see how "wrong" my previous way was, I always ask myself "how was I ever able to shoot a decent group doing it the old way?"

I had a doctor once tell me that he thinks BR shooters are mostly OCD patients anyway. :) He was joking, but it makes me wonder sometimes.

I will grab a random handfull of cases when the sun comes up and shoot a couple groups. If they look decent then I wont give it another thought. EVER.
 
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