Dudedog
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Any that I don't have to remove the crimps on
Favorite 223 Cases to reload-
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So, you haven't loaded any Fiocchi (GFL) or Perfecta cases? You will see some real decapping pin busters in some of those cases!
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See my post #27
Dudedog
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Yes, flash holes not even close to the center of the pocket, managled a pin dealing with them.
I toss them in the recycle can now when I find them....
I had one where the edge of the flash hole was at the edge of the pocket.
I suppose if you deprimed carefully and the flash holes were close enough to center to not mess up you decap pin, the brass would be ok.
scarletfire
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any opinion on hornady 223?
picked up a bunch yesterday.
picked up a bunch yesterday.
LC 5.56 was always good brass. The case heads held up better than a few brands without primer pocket expansion. When I was shooting NRA Across the Course, if I lost a few cases in the weeds, standing and sitting rapid fire, it was not a heart breaker. I shot lots of cleans at 300 yards with LC brass. I used Winchester brass at 600 yards and I shot excellent scores. Federal brass, I picked up coffee cans full of the stuff from the Military teams at Camp Perry. They were using Federal Gold Medal match out to 300 yards and of course, the fired cases on the ground were free. However, Federal has soft case heads and the pockets expanded. It was rare to take a Fed case five reloads before the primer pocket expanded to the point that the primer fell out. Federal is fine if it is free, but I am not paying money for it.
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I made a promise to my grandson to take him shooting every weekend from when the snow leaves until the snow returns. We go to a couple of hravel pits on Federal Land up in the Cascade Mountains. Every weekend we pick up any brass other people left behind. Our best weekend was twenty-two pounds of brass. We have enough 223 brass to last the rest of my life and several years into his.
He has a AR15 that he shoots every weekend. I only let him shoot fifty rounds a week sometimes a hundred.
I have a Remington 700 with the bull barrel in 223 and a Ruger 77/223 stainless boatail synthetic stock.
I lay a tarp out to catch the brass from the AR15.
I also mark the end of the cases with a red permanent marker so we can keep our reloaded brass seperate from any range brass we happen to get mixed in with our reloaded brass.
We just plink for fun most of the time, but I don't let him go cowboy. The deal it to take your time, aim at what you are shooting at and hit what you aim at.
I also have the fifty round plastic ammo boxes with the hindged top and have them market for each gun and what is inside & what bullets are loaded in them as well so the brass pretty much stays together for each gun when we take more then one 223 out shooting.
As pieces of brass become lost or garbage I just grab another from my prepped brass load with the old used stuff and color the end red.
I don't look at head stamps any more. After shooting it gets resized, put threw the trimmer. Tumbled if needed then loaded & crimped.
I have three tupperware like containers that are 3 1/4" by 7 1/4" by 11" full of prepped 223 and about 5 gallons of cleaned, deprimed and swagged primer pockets ready to get resized if my smaller prepped brass gets low.
He has a AR15 that he shoots every weekend. I only let him shoot fifty rounds a week sometimes a hundred.
I have a Remington 700 with the bull barrel in 223 and a Ruger 77/223 stainless boatail synthetic stock.
I lay a tarp out to catch the brass from the AR15.
I also mark the end of the cases with a red permanent marker so we can keep our reloaded brass seperate from any range brass we happen to get mixed in with our reloaded brass.
We just plink for fun most of the time, but I don't let him go cowboy. The deal it to take your time, aim at what you are shooting at and hit what you aim at.
I also have the fifty round plastic ammo boxes with the hindged top and have them market for each gun and what is inside & what bullets are loaded in them as well so the brass pretty much stays together for each gun when we take more then one 223 out shooting.
As pieces of brass become lost or garbage I just grab another from my prepped brass load with the old used stuff and color the end red.
I don't look at head stamps any more. After shooting it gets resized, put threw the trimmer. Tumbled if needed then loaded & crimped.
I have three tupperware like containers that are 3 1/4" by 7 1/4" by 11" full of prepped 223 and about 5 gallons of cleaned, deprimed and swagged primer pockets ready to get resized if my smaller prepped brass gets low.
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