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I'm not doubting anyone who is reporting problems, I just have never seen any problems with Fiocchi brass.
Have you ever loaded GFL brass?
I'm not doubting anyone who is reporting problems, I just have never seen any problems with Fiocchi brass.
Hi...
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with reloading Fiocchi brass.
I have had some issues lately with off center flash holes with their .357Mag brass.
I have had to replace one decapping pin on the RCBS die set that I use on my RockChucker and my son has had to replace two if them on the set that we use on the small primer set up LNL.
This is the first Fiocchi brass I have ever had...my son bought 1000 rounds of their .357Mag brass some time ago and we have just recently started to reload it.
I have reloaded thousands of rounds of ammunition since the early '80s and until this batch of Fiocchi brass have never encountered off center flash holes prior to this...never had to replace a decapping pin heretofore.
Wondering if this is common with Fiocchi brass???
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Currently brass is cheap and readily available. Why use the stuff that gives you issues?
If I have any problems when depriming or resizing any brass, particularly if it requires more force than normal to deprime, that piece gets noted and tossed. When I've seen a trend from a particular manufacturer I stop using that brass.
My notes tell me 357 Fiocchi brass was sorted out and tossed from the mixed headstamp pile some time ago.
It probably pays to note that I'm a slow reloader, sort brass by headstamp, deprime and resize as a separate process and use a turret press, not a progressive press.
Yes I have had problems with Fiocchi and GFL branded brass having flash holes so far out of center I couldn't de-prime it.
GFL and Fiocchi brass are the same brass.
Their 223 match ammo is very accurate. I had no complaints from the 357, but it's about 10 years old now.I don't know why this bothers me, but..,
I'll bet the third gens are the ones that came out with the GFL line.
If I was in the Fiocchi family and my Grandfathers name that started the company and provided me with a very good living, was used on the headstamp of our product, that Ammo would be the best in the class that it was made for. My Grandfathers name on THIS brass, that would bother me a lot. I mean a lot.
If my company was going to make brass and ammo on the quality level as A-merc, it sure wouldn't have name of, or any form of that name, of the original founder on it.
CBC has issues with rim thickness also. I lose at least 1 of 50.I have had no noted problems reloading 9mm or 32acp Fiocchi brass. However, CBC brass hates my Federal SPPs.
GFL is my favorite brass in 9mm. No issues, never a failure...yet. Win and Federal have split on me, but 1-2 cases out of thousands...who cares? No problems depriming. CBC and Magtech give me fits depriming. They appear to have much smaller diameter flash holes.
Look at it this way, revolver brass doesn't get lost so you only have to do this once. Once you get through it you'll have 950+ good pieces of brass.
I guess the guy in the back room had a good day with his Harbor freight cordless drillI would say if only 70% of yours were off center you must have got a "good" batch
Have you ever loaded GFL brass?