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308 LC 12 brass - primed: Good, bad, ugly ?
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 793573" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>Well, its working out fine so far. The green in the water when tumbling is definitely from the primer.. I guess it does not like that hot soapy water at all...</p><p></p><p>I am also putting together a picture why this ammo was rejected in the first place... About 2% of the total has either a split in the neck or what looks like a forging lap when the brass was made. I couldn't see this before the brass was cleaned up, but now that it is I have been finding more of them. Its not a tiny defect, its typically the full length of the neck.</p><p></p><p>I have already deprimed all the LR brass, was no problem. Some of the LR brass was crimped too, which is odd, it is not supposed to be. The shells were still wet and so I have to clean up my press at bit when I get through this batch. Unless I am mistaken, the primer compound contains mercury. The green solution in the water has stained my fingernails a kind of yellow. I'm sure that under a black light I would be glowing... I think it is also the reason why some of the cartridges come out the wash copper colored. Now that the cases are deprimed, they will get one more washing in the tumbler and I am sure that will get rid of the copper look since all the primer compound is gone. </p><p></p><p>My Lee neck sizing die had no problem with depriming. It has a full caliber mandrel for the neck and all one needs to do is spin the mandrel in a drill while polishing the conical end and putting a slight radius on the corner so that it will open up any bent case mouths more smoothly. I do have to say that this beats dealing with buying used once fired brass with mixed headstamps, thats for sure. Last batch of used brass had about 40 PMC shells in it that were fired with over max loads. Big ejector flow mark on it and the headstamp is so flattened that it is hardly legible. That goes into the "emergency" supplies...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 793573, member: 35183"] Well, its working out fine so far. The green in the water when tumbling is definitely from the primer.. I guess it does not like that hot soapy water at all... I am also putting together a picture why this ammo was rejected in the first place... About 2% of the total has either a split in the neck or what looks like a forging lap when the brass was made. I couldn't see this before the brass was cleaned up, but now that it is I have been finding more of them. Its not a tiny defect, its typically the full length of the neck. I have already deprimed all the LR brass, was no problem. Some of the LR brass was crimped too, which is odd, it is not supposed to be. The shells were still wet and so I have to clean up my press at bit when I get through this batch. Unless I am mistaken, the primer compound contains mercury. The green solution in the water has stained my fingernails a kind of yellow. I'm sure that under a black light I would be glowing... I think it is also the reason why some of the cartridges come out the wash copper colored. Now that the cases are deprimed, they will get one more washing in the tumbler and I am sure that will get rid of the copper look since all the primer compound is gone. My Lee neck sizing die had no problem with depriming. It has a full caliber mandrel for the neck and all one needs to do is spin the mandrel in a drill while polishing the conical end and putting a slight radius on the corner so that it will open up any bent case mouths more smoothly. I do have to say that this beats dealing with buying used once fired brass with mixed headstamps, thats for sure. Last batch of used brass had about 40 PMC shells in it that were fired with over max loads. Big ejector flow mark on it and the headstamp is so flattened that it is hardly legible. That goes into the "emergency" supplies... [/QUOTE]
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