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Posted: 1/30/2011 2:55:10 PM EDT
| I'm not new to reloading, but I have not reloaded military brass before. I just bought 2,000 pieces of once fired brass and it is not what I expected. There are more cases with bent mouths than there are not, about 6 to 1 and a lot of cases with dents in them. Is this normal for military brass, and what are safe guidelines in determining which pieces I should discard? |
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Dented case mouths will straighten out just fine during the resizing stage.
I suggest usings a Sinclair International neck expander or K&M's expandiron on the really bad ones first. On the cheap and easy side you can simply insert the bullet of a dedicated M193 round and it will round and flair the bent case mouth enough to resize the case. I knock all the primers out of surplus brass on a dedicated press (cheaper is better) and use Lee's decapping die. Every G.I. case needs to have the primer pocket crimp removed before it will accept a new primer. This can be incorporated into rounding the case mouths on badly dented caes. Just have an old round close by when you are decapping and insert it as needed. |
| Should be a none issue , i decap then clean and inspect, then FL size with a small base die . Always look for ring at the base and other bad dings and toss them , small dents are ok and case mouth will be fine when resized. Then I check them with a wilson case gauge. |
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Should be a none issue , i decap then clean and inspect, then FL size with a small base die . Always look for ring at the base and other bad dings and toss them , small dents are ok and case mouth will be fine when resized. Then I check them with a wilson case gauge. What are the benefits of using the small base die? |
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