223 brass, how to separate ?

[AccelR8]

Hold on...I was just thinkin'
Wasn't Federal Ammunition part of ATK?
Just a little research; Federal Ammunition today is part of Vista Outdoors. Vista Outdoors was spun off from ATK in 2015 after ATK merged with Orbital. So I guess it could be that Federal, as part of ATK, did run the plant. That would be from 1999 until Oct. 2020. I guess...? Or the Federal Ammunition aspect of ATK Orbital left the plant operation behind at the spin off in'15 and ATK Orbital stayed on/took over...

Gosh the things you wonder about when you should be sleeping!

 

[JB10]

I do not sort my LC brass at all. Prep and go. If i can get groups like i do for a non competition rifle ill keep smiling

 

[USMCDOC]

take all the brass as is and sell at a metal recycler.
then buy a box or two of lapua 223 match brass, and sort them by weight.
try for 3 50 round groups, use the outliers for fouling early development.
if this is a savage std rifle, save your money( fclass are the exception)

i will have to disagree with you there.. properly prepped LC bass of the same year will shoot as good as Lapua, i have lots and lots of experience with that..

 

[CharlieNC]

i will have to disagree with you there.. properly prepped LC bass of the same year will shoot as good as Lapua, i have lots and lots of experience with that..

Me too! Especially the bulk bags of new LC which is top notch.

 

[DLT]

Me too! Especially the bulk bags of new LC which is top notch.

I’d like to run across a batch of that

 

[moorepower]

Thanks for the replies. Can anyone confirm that frontier is LC brass or Federal brass ?

The new Frontier in the 20 round brown boxes is LC for Hornady. The older brass is not.

 

[moorepower]

I sort it by year, swage and ream primer pockets and clean up the flash hole. I found out if you run it through a small base die with no decapping rod, that in one step, I have .20 P brass, ready to load.

 

[Dgd6mm]

I sort it by year, swage and ream primer pockets and clean up the flash hole. I found out if you run it through a small base die with no decapping rod, that in one step, I have .20 P brass, ready to load.

Is this a 20P f.l. small base die?

 

[moorepower]

I use a .223 sb die, sorry for the confusion. It was an accident that I figured it out.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Thank you.
Don Dunlap