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Sory for the length....I tend to be long winded....
Preface....I've never attempted to reload brass with crimped primers.....
I finally dug down to my range pick up .223 Fiocchi brass.
Though there was a very faint ring around the primer pocket, it did not look nearly as pronounced as what I've seen on the Lake City brass I've segregated out ... and ... I was under the impression that Fiocchi ammo. was for civilian consumption (as I also scrounged the OEM packaging which was obviously for retail sale).
I proceeded to prep the brass in my usual manner. I tumbled, lubed, deprimed and sized, trimmed, chamfered and then did a quick tumble again.
The brass deprimed with no extra effort (unlike the few Lake City cases that I've fooled around with).
So I set about reloading these with my new favorite "economy M193 clone" load (Win 55gr. FMJBT on top of 24.8 gr. of H335 & WSRP).
The first 20 or so seated the primers just fine....then I notice they seem a little "crunchy" going in. So I start taking a really close look and notice that there just a small burr on the primer pockets and some brass shavings in my primer seating cup (LCT press) . I take a close look at the primers on the 20 I just completed and though they appear to be proberly seated (flush to or slightly below the surface), the "crunchy" ones almost look slighlty off center (possibly due to the ring or residual burr).
Unfortunately I do not have a swaging tool and will not be able to aquire one any time soon (for reasons having to do with marital harmony, that I prefer not to detail ).
But in an effort to salvage the reloading session and get through this small 50 piece batch of brass, I used my Lee deburring tool to chamfer the edge of the primer pocket, which removed the visable burr, but I'm not sure about residual distortion of the primer pocket. These cases then took the primer with much less "crunchiness", though not as smoothly as my commercial Rem brass.
Soooo...
Did I screw up?
Should these rounds be good?
Is Fioochi brass crimped?
Or could the faint ring be an imprint from a rifle bolt face?
Preface....I've never attempted to reload brass with crimped primers.....
I finally dug down to my range pick up .223 Fiocchi brass.
Though there was a very faint ring around the primer pocket, it did not look nearly as pronounced as what I've seen on the Lake City brass I've segregated out ... and ... I was under the impression that Fiocchi ammo. was for civilian consumption (as I also scrounged the OEM packaging which was obviously for retail sale).
I proceeded to prep the brass in my usual manner. I tumbled, lubed, deprimed and sized, trimmed, chamfered and then did a quick tumble again.
The brass deprimed with no extra effort (unlike the few Lake City cases that I've fooled around with).
So I set about reloading these with my new favorite "economy M193 clone" load (Win 55gr. FMJBT on top of 24.8 gr. of H335 & WSRP).
The first 20 or so seated the primers just fine....then I notice they seem a little "crunchy" going in. So I start taking a really close look and notice that there just a small burr on the primer pockets and some brass shavings in my primer seating cup (LCT press) . I take a close look at the primers on the 20 I just completed and though they appear to be proberly seated (flush to or slightly below the surface), the "crunchy" ones almost look slighlty off center (possibly due to the ring or residual burr).
Unfortunately I do not have a swaging tool and will not be able to aquire one any time soon (for reasons having to do with marital harmony, that I prefer not to detail ).
But in an effort to salvage the reloading session and get through this small 50 piece batch of brass, I used my Lee deburring tool to chamfer the edge of the primer pocket, which removed the visable burr, but I'm not sure about residual distortion of the primer pocket. These cases then took the primer with much less "crunchiness", though not as smoothly as my commercial Rem brass.
Soooo...
Did I screw up?
Should these rounds be good?
Is Fioochi brass crimped?
Or could the faint ring be an imprint from a rifle bolt face?