Good Morning,
I was up in my gun room making some .308 Bellm cases and got to wondering about somehow marking the cases to identify them permenently as .308 Bellm cases. And then thought about the .30 Herrett and the .357 Herrett and a few others that I have that are now different then what is stamped in the case.
How are some of you others dealing with this?

For years I've just not worryied about it, maybe I should just forget I every thought about it!!

Anyway, Just curious what others do!!

Bob

Hi Bob,
I haven't found a way to mark the cases and I don't think it can be done. What I do is keep each caliber in there own plastic containers and marked...like 308Bellm, 309JDJ, 358JDJ and so on.
I don't really need to do this cause all are different in one way or another and I can tell. But it does make it easier. I have coffee cans for once fired brass and I won't use them till i'm out of new brass, then I use all once fired till there all gone then I have all twice fired brass and so on. I don't know if this helps you or not but thats what I do to keep my cases in order.
BTW, I have about 100 containers

All my brass goes into its own ammo box (other than 9mil and 223), it gets labeled with it own number and stays in that box until it is junk. I use MS Excel to keep a record of just exactly how that brass gets loaded, trimmed, neck or full length sized, OAL, gun it is intended for, etc...

This has worked well for me over the last 20 years.....

You can always color code the case heads with magic marker. That's what I do with my hunting ammo. To save room packing I put them all in one box, but heads down in a solid ammo box you cant tell 44's from 357-44 B&D's nor 309JDJ'd from 358JDJ's. So one of each of those pairs gets a swipe of color.