sold military crimped 223 brass, should i of been told this??
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Can doCan you post individual before and after pictures of each of the 300 cases to include tumbling, depriming, decrimping, pocket cleaning, priming and maybe even case trimming please? That would be really, like really, interesting….
Foxyboy43
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Smashing - sadly I’m getting a root canal filling and wouldn’t want to miss that appointment….Can do
people will soon get bored and stop posting, when the next "Hot" topic comes alongCannot help but look at this thread when it pops up
lets do this.... next person to post on it is a C*%T
enfieldspares
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Much as some might enjoy a chance to indulge in schadenfreude the OP has exposed to many that not all fired cases are equal. Back in the day...painful and costly memory...some other Austran or German brand cases had small diameter flash holes. Everything else was standard. Standard large rifle Boxer primer (uncrimped) and etc.. But use a standard decapping pin and you'd bend it and with Lyman or RCBS dies the decapping rod also.
The other bugbear were cannelurrd pistol case such as .38 Special loaded when new with a 148 grain hollow base wadcutter, .357 Magnum cases or British .,303 with a stab crimp. As under subsequent reloaded that cannelurrd or ,less so .303 stab crimp would work itself "out" as it were. Usually at a different rate of case overall length increase between case to case to case resulting in much time wasted often after each firing trimming all the cases from a batch back down to overall length.
And the other thing to be aware where cases were bought as fired with old mercuric primers in them as the mercury would cause the case necks to be brittle. The original firer may have had the issues of rusting barrels to address but even fired those mercuric primers were to be avoided. And yes even some American military Boxer primer brass used mercuric primers.
So this thread has I hope been a learning experience for some.
The other bugbear were cannelurrd pistol case such as .38 Special loaded when new with a 148 grain hollow base wadcutter, .357 Magnum cases or British .,303 with a stab crimp. As under subsequent reloaded that cannelurrd or ,less so .303 stab crimp would work itself "out" as it were. Usually at a different rate of case overall length increase between case to case to case resulting in much time wasted often after each firing trimming all the cases from a batch back down to overall length.
And the other thing to be aware where cases were bought as fired with old mercuric primers in them as the mercury would cause the case necks to be brittle. The original firer may have had the issues of rusting barrels to address but even fired those mercuric primers were to be avoided. And yes even some American military Boxer primer brass used mercuric primers.
So this thread has I hope been a learning experience for some.
enfieldspares
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HP headstamp. Hirtenberger. That's the small flash hole stuff. Thread after thread about it on the internet. The company now no longer AFAIK makes commercial "civilian" ammunition. They did all sorts including .270 Winchester. A real pain it was let alone the bent decapping pins. And in the 2000s and 2010s you had forgotten about the whole thing until a bent decapping rod then reminded you!
HP head stamp .308 brass
Just thought I would pass along some info I found on some HP brass I picked up somewhere. Originally I tried sizing this brass with my Lee die but the flash hole was so small the pin kept getting stuck...and I mean STUCK. Had to get the plyers out to pull the pin back out then stick it back...
www.thehighroad.org
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shakey jake
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do crimped 22 250 ever show up?
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