Norma brass Issues….

[Greyfox]

Whether pistol, or rifle brass, I have made it a practice to check the flash hole size with changes in the brand of brass. Particularly when switching to the European brands(Lapua,Norma).

 

[Mike Matteson]

I follow that practice too.

 

[coriolis2k]

I follow that practice too.

Thanks for bringing this up, great information.

 

[264 Win Mag Man]

I normalize all my brass. In doing this it normalizes the flash hole. I never had a problem with us,European,Korean,and African brass regardless of brand of brass depriming using Mighty Armory deprimer. This includes crimped primers.

 

[Bruce Treloar]

Was cranking 9mm brass on the bench today, prepped 1k & tossed in the tumbler. Grabbed my next bag of mixed head stamp & started running into issues. Bent de-capping pin thread insert after changing 1broken pin replacement. Narrowed my issue down to NORMA 9mm brass. Got like 7 of them set aside so far. The Norma brass has a smaller flash hole than all other standard 9mm in my possession. Posting this thread to gather intel & maybe give a few handloaders a heads-up if they've stockpiled Norma 9mm for reloading…….using RCBS Carbide 3die setView attachment 349188View attachment 349189View attachment 349190

 

[Bruce Treloar]

I'd reduce the size of the pin and keep the small flash holes. keep a reduced size pin specially for the Norma cases. You will probably find the cases hold less powder due to the extra thickness of Norma brass. I find Norma brass excellent, only problem they are expensive due to value of the
Euro.

 

[ElkSurgeon]

Also can you just uniform flash hole,then done with issue.What are you doing for system?Some type of progressive,I want to start loading for my pistol as a more affordable option currently

I'm using single stage setup for subsonic handloads, works great! Less time on phone, & more time on bench with my boy. He absolutely loves it, probably 10 hours to prep all 1500 pieces completely. I know there's faster ways but I'm making it work…..

 

[ElkSurgeon]

 

[RockyRandy]

Was cranking 9mm brass on the bench today, prepped 1k & tossed in the tumbler. Grabbed my next bag of mixed head stamp & started running into issues. Bent de-capping pin thread insert after changing 1broken pin replacement. Narrowed my issue down to NORMA 9mm brass. Got like 7 of them set aside so far. The Norma brass has a smaller flash hole than all other standard 9mm in my possession. Posting this thread to gather intel & maybe give a few handloaders a heads-up if they've stockpiled Norma 9mm for reloading…….using RCBS Carbide 3die setView attachment 349188View attachment 349189View attachment 349190

I ran into a similar issue with some creedmor brass. Norma forgot to drill out the flash hole completely.

 

[RockyRandy]

View attachment 349923

Oh he's hooked for life. Awesome

 

[RUFFIAN R - NY]

that's super- keep him well supplied and good work DAD !!!