Why doesn't the military issue reloading equipment to infantry

>>28425674
Because the enemy gives you time to police your brass during a firefight.

>>28425674
Because that's pretty fucking dumb, anyways the military already reloads brass

>trusting grunts with loading their own ammo
lolno, they'd fuck up their loads, guns and themelves.
>yo dawg, what if I load two bullets? what if I load a bullet backwards? what if I load pistol powder in the rifle cartridge?

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>>28425791

>oh shit lt i didnt know i had to load powder
>i just filled this case up with primers

>>28425791
+++++P+++++

>>28425791
>>28425820
kek

Wind up with ammo that looks worse than that. Jesus that setback.

>>28425674
>He doesn't know the military recycles all of it's brass already

Seriously, all military brass is collected up after training and either sent back to manufacturers or sold off. It's not worth the time, effort, and logistics to reload the brass left over from even a company sized training event. Also, quality control would be a whole other issue. ACOGs have BDCs specifically for M855 ammo, if a batch is off, that ammo's impacts will not match up with the sights.

One more thing, good luck reloading brass fired out of a machinegun, even if the headspace isn't fucked up like most of the ones i saw.

>>28425685
it cant be that hard to just pocket the brass during a lull

>>28425791
>What if I just load the casing up to the top with powder? Maybe I will have faster boolit!

>>28427691
implying a full case compressed load wouldnt be the safest way to implement relloading

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>>28425674
Alright, we agreed to a 30 minute ceasefire so everyone can collect their brass.

>>28425674
how old are you OP?

>>28425674
Basically, you eventually reach a point when your time is worth more than your money.

Think of the thousands of rounds they shoot, and think of how many people would get killed by a sandnigger because some dumbass E-1 decided to load his rounds with spare ball bearings and cigarette ash.

>>28425674
I've never net an 11B that I would want to be loading my ammo, sorry.

>>28427752
You'd have to make it impossible to fuck up. That's hard to do with reloading.

Urban legend of the Canadian Forces
>Talking to older, French Warrant
>He was teaching the annual Enviro Brief
>Talking about how we're a green army, even though we're incredibly wasteful
>Back in his day, whatever CFB he was at in Quebec, their range was across a bridge
>They'd still collect brass after a shot, but they wouldn't recycle it
>After every exercice, as they drove over the bridge, they'd throw it over
>This was a decades old tradition
>Bridge finally needs to be redone because of structural problems
>Construction crew starts digging about the base of the bridge
>It's all brass and it seriously complicates the reconstruction of the bridge

>>28425791
>>28430878

this

modern rifles aren't just designed to shoot good. they are impossible to reassemble in any way but the right way

cartridges are easy to fuckup

also, smoking

>>28425685
Then why not reload only the brass used during target practice and training? That way infantry wouldn't have to do it

>>28430968
>smoking

You don't smoke while you're reloading?

>>28431079

>Telling dumb as shit grunts not to smoke while doing anything

>>28427661
can you tell the brass not to spray every fucking where, your buddys spend brass can even find its way down the inside of your jacket all hot and shit if you are lucky

>>28431019
Because they're not spending their money, they're spending the tax payers. What the fuck do they care?

When I was deployed in 2003, 2005, and 2007. The officers periodically checked all our ammo. To make sure we weren't cutting grooves into them to make dumdum rounds.

They certainly wouldn't let us reload ammo. Fearing we would make hot loads, hollow points, fragmenting, or AP ammo.

Are you the same idiot that asked how people are dying if they have body armor.

Why the actual fuck would grunts carry all of the components for reloading when they could fill that space with ammo while not blowing their hands off

>>28432443
don't forget that one guy who got his hands on TM 31-210 and niggerrigs tracers

>>28425791
>>yo dawg, what if I load two bullets?

>Medal of Honor recipient Bob Howard, for example, sometimes toted a compact, selective-fire M14A1 rifle, its barrel and flash suppressor chopped by 8" and a handgrip installed below the forearm. In it, Howard fired 7.62 mm M198 duplex cartridges, each containing two stacked 84-gr. Spitzer bullets with respective muzzle velocities of 2700 and 2200 f.p.s.. In effect, this doubled his M14’s output to 40 rounds per magazine.
http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2015/4/3/behind-enemy-lines-weapons-of-vietnams-covert-warriors/

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>>28433463
>you will never operate innajungle and trole the everloving shit out of gooks

>>28431079
Only if I screwed it up somehow. That's why I keep a bucket of water handy, nowdays. Once your dreads start smouldering, it's impossible to put that shit out short of full immersion.

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>>28434484
>dreads

>>28425674
Stop being stupid, or kill yourself.

>>28433463
duplex rounds were carefully developed and loaded to specifications, not grunt-rigged from standard components.

>>28427661

>lulls in fighting are actually just the other guys picking up their brass

>>28434270
Oh my god that's fucking hilarious.

>>28436106
You just know they were pissing themselves laughing.

I would've blown the op due to giggling too much while in the encampment.

>>28425674
Because there is enough shit that needs doing already in the field without having to worry about collecting brass, reloading brass, making sure everyone is doing it right, etc.
It's far simpler and cheaper to bus in new ammo and abandon spent brass.

>>28436122
Giggling like a couple frat boys breaking into the dean's office.

If there ever was a war to operate in, it would have been veitnam.

>>28426133
Most of the brass goes to DRMO.