Cubbear
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Hello everyone. I'm new to your site although I have enjoyed many of your discussions for months now. I recently began to reload again. Lot has changed since the early 80's. I recently purchased so 30.06 brass Norma brand. After opening the new bag and examined a few I felt I could just add primers and begin my loads. After priming about 50 cases I began re checking my primer depth and found these cases I primed and was disappointed in the quality control I got. Many of the cases were out of round on the mouth slightly flat on one side with the exception of the obvious case mutilation. I hand primed them with my Frankfort hand priming tool. These cases reminded me of lessons you learn from previous lessons that I've forgotten. I'm not complaining by any means. I'm glad I found some brass and will re correct these abnormalities and will strive to be a better reloader so I can teach the generations to follow to do things right. Inspect all your new brass first. I hope this doesn't happen to you. I feel the pandemic will create some quality control issues which I took for granted. I'm also seeking advice for sizing bushings for my Redding dies and powder charge using Barnes 165 ttsx bullets in my tikka rifle. I will use lupus brass exclusively for my hunting rounds. I have shot many cow elk with factory rounds and shoot the lead free bullets because of condors in the area that re introduced near the area I hunt. The bullets are very impressive in the Ethics I hold to harvest an animal to feed my family. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and shoot straight and often.
