yes if you use the bulge buster
Not true. As long as your sizer die sizes to fit the chamber you are good to go. Some like the Bulge Buster and I'm sure it works, but in my opinion, it's marketing hype and unnecessary.
this brass comes from a person that sells once fired brass, it is cleaned deprimed and resized. The seller claims that it comes from a range that does not permit reloads. I have bought bullets from this person before and he has sent me samples of other bullets that he sells. He seems to be an honest guy, but it just goes against one of the rules of safe reloading, do not use brass of unknown origin, and as far as glocked brass goes, as popular as glocks are, there has got be some glocked brass in there. this brass will not be shot in a glock, it will be shot in a sig P239 I usually use new brass an keep track of how many times it has been fired, but I`am getting tired of looking for and picking up these little shells, and I always loose some, but I think everybody does.I am wary of glocked brass.
If I know it was once fired, I'm interested. Range pickups, not so much, until I inspect each piece.
I have a sneaking suspicion that some if not most of the Glock kabooms are caused by repeated stretching and resizing of the case near the head by the unsupported Glock .40S&W chambers.
Some people pass off glock Kabooms as "double charge" incidents. I'm not so sure.
It is conventional wisdom that "pistol brass will always split at the neck" when it is worn out. And so people just shoot it until the neck splits and don't bother really inspecting the condition of the brass the way they do for rifle loads. They don't worry about "incipient case head separation" because "that's just for rifle cases".
That conventional wisdom holds up pretty well.
Unless your talking about reloading for Glocks.
And so people some people go on their merry way and keep reloading for unsupported Glocks where the area near the case head gets stretched and worked much more that the case mouth, and then all the convetional wisdom goes right out the window.
I reload. I will always reload. I also chose the .40S&W. So beside the the grip angle, the unsupported chamber is the other reason I don't own a Glock (or a bunch of other guns with similar chambers).
ETA: When I inspect the brass I'm looking for signs that it has been previously resized. If it has, I toss it. So to answer the OP, yes I will pick up and shoot once fired "glock" brass in my supported XD chamber.
this brass comes from a person that sells once fired brass, it is cleaned deprimed and resized. The seller claims that it comes from a range that does not permit reloads. I have bought bullets from this person before and he has sent me samples of other bullets that he sells. He seems to be an honest guy, but it just goes against one of the rules of safe reloading, do not use brass of unknown origin, and as far as glocked brass goes, as popular as glocks are, there has got be some glocked brass in there. this brass will not be shot in a glock, it will be shot in a sig P239 I usually use new brass an keep track of how many times it has been fired, but I`am getting tired of looking for and picking up these little shells, and I always loose some, but I think everybody does.
Ive heard this before, but is Glock the only one who uses this semi-unsupported style chamber? what about M&P? XD? etc?
thanks,
clay
Wyatts in Cicero was going to open an indoor range, don`t know if they ever have but that was one of their rules, no reloads, the membership was way to expensive.It's my normal policy to not shoot anyone else's reloads or use brass from an unknown origin. However, I'm probably a little overcautious and as long as you inspect each piece for problems and load them with some common sense loads you will be fine. I do, however, wonder about this range that doesn't allow reloads. Do ranges like this really exist?