Posted: 4/27/2009 1:52:59 AM EDT
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Hi All,
Just a quick question for those in the know. I picked up 200 spent .223 brass for a friend cheap. It appears to be stamped RORG. Will he need any special equipment to reload this? Im guessing it will have some sort of primer crimp mabe need a dillon primer pocket swager or is it just junk? All the best Chris |
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RG brass tends to be harder and thicker than commercial brass so be careful when you select your powder and bullet combination. If it's once fired then you'll have to remove the primer crimp either by swaging it with a Dillion Primer Pocket Swager, running it through someone's Dillion 1050 (SF has my old one) or cutting it out with primer pocket chamferring tool. For me it's all to much effort so I just bin RG Brass or let some of the Range Tramps I shoot with pick it up. 
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Cheers for the info. He's got way too much time on his hands so will probably give it a go. The brass looks ok and as its cheap so he might as well if he can be botherd. Thanks for the heads up on the thickness of the brass. I will let him know. I guess there will be load info out there for it. I take it due to the thicker walls that you would have to down load to make sure the pressure doenst get too high. Might also be a pain to resize if its thicker. I will let him have a go and find out.
Thanks again |
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The 223 is boxer primed. It does have a slight crimp in the primer pocket but my Dillon 550 has enough brute force to ignore it. (Both decapping and squeezing in the new primer.)
I usually don't notice if one has crept in to my reloads until I'm putting them in the ammo boxes. So I don't think he'll have any trouble reloading it if he wants to. |
| I also reload RG but have got a bit more selective on which brass to save. I found the early dated RORG gave hard extraction, that is anything dated 80's or 90's, so binned it. Now only using L17A2 headstamped, dated post millennium. Primers can be a bit hard to de-cap sometimes, but once de-capped, doesn't take long to de-crimp, and you only have to do that once. |
