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How do you mark your reloads?
I know many people put the load data on the box that they store the ammo in, but that only helps if the ammo is in the box. If you load up a few magazines, at a later date how do you distinguish what are different styles of loads or even from factory ammo?
One of the things I stared doing is marking my primers with a sharpie and then labeling that in my load book with the color. This allows me to easily distinguish loose ammo and once it is shot and the primer is knocked out there is no residual mark. I stared doing this after I was filling magazines with subsonic reloads that looked just like other ammo I had. I now do this with all my reloads for easy ID. The colors do not signify anything, they just happen to be what I decided at the moment.
Here is a picture for example with 9mm loads from left to right: Blue, 124 gr subsonic reloads; factory 115 gr that has "brass color" primer, Red, 147 gr subsonic reloads; factory 115 gr that has "sliver color" primers; Black 115 gr subsonic reloads. The 115 gr SS runs great in one gun, but not in the others and once expended will not be loaded again, the 124 gr was 50 rounds loaded for testing, the 147 gr is now my go to and runs well in everything.
Hopefully someone finds this beneficial.
I know many people put the load data on the box that they store the ammo in, but that only helps if the ammo is in the box. If you load up a few magazines, at a later date how do you distinguish what are different styles of loads or even from factory ammo?
One of the things I stared doing is marking my primers with a sharpie and then labeling that in my load book with the color. This allows me to easily distinguish loose ammo and once it is shot and the primer is knocked out there is no residual mark. I stared doing this after I was filling magazines with subsonic reloads that looked just like other ammo I had. I now do this with all my reloads for easy ID. The colors do not signify anything, they just happen to be what I decided at the moment.
Here is a picture for example with 9mm loads from left to right: Blue, 124 gr subsonic reloads; factory 115 gr that has "brass color" primer, Red, 147 gr subsonic reloads; factory 115 gr that has "sliver color" primers; Black 115 gr subsonic reloads. The 115 gr SS runs great in one gun, but not in the others and once expended will not be loaded again, the 124 gr was 50 rounds loaded for testing, the 147 gr is now my go to and runs well in everything.
Hopefully someone finds this beneficial.