the two most common range pickups in my area. have a ton of each. before i bother processing, which have you found to be better? (FC is with the dots on the headstamp)
FC vs LC brass
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Range brass is a crap shoot. U don't know it's history. I would avoid range brass for anything except recycling.
i should have said i wasn't talking about digging it out of the weeds. i meant picked up 'clean' in large lots from adjacent firing positions, after watching them load out of typical psuedo mil-surp - for the commercial market - packaging.
I had a friend's teenage son shoot the new red ,white and blue box FC 223 at our place and I picked up his brass ( which he should have done ) . It looks to have a similar head stamp except no nato cross and FC instead of LC. I wandering if the newer 223 federal American eagle is made with the same materials and on the same machines as the LC brass is . The older "black eagle" AR223 didn't have these newer head stamps . These also had visual annealing .Enquiring minds want to know ???
I buy LC milspec new and used for my 223. Its great heavy duty brass imo but yeah not lapua bench grade. I take the time to uniform it and get plenty of bug hole groups. The last batch of new LC I got was about 20cents a casing I think. So I am not too proud to bend over and scrounge 1x military brass. My dillon swager fixes em real easy.
I get 5-6 firings easy out of the stuff.
I get 5-6 firings easy out of the stuff.
memilanuk
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Where might one find new/virgin LC mil-spec brass available commercially? Never heard of such a thing, but intrigued...
Goolge it, lots of places have marked as discontinued but there are several that still have it and then those that are pull downs and not "virgin" cases.
I use the LC for match ammo
I use the FC for hunting ammo ( its' fired and ejected and forgotten )
(I have found FC to be soft and the primer will be loose after 3 loading )
I use the FC for hunting ammo ( its' fired and ejected and forgotten )
(I have found FC to be soft and the primer will be loose after 3 loading )
Grafs sells it, along with primed virgin brass. It is packaged in the Federal bags, but is LC Nato brass.
That "crap" is simply the Nato brass that they can't sell as loaded ammo to the public. It is still virgin brass. It hasn't been fired.
Jdne5b
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It has been available as new. Although some grumblings are around that some of the midway stuff ended up being FC headstamped.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/6...g-brass-556x45mm-nato-new-unfired-box-of-1000
https://www.the-armory.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product1402.html
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/6...g-brass-556x45mm-nato-new-unfired-box-of-1000
https://www.the-armory.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product1402.html
If you are looking for some, I have 600 pieces of virgin LC 11 NATO brass.Yeah, I didn't have any problems finding stuff that was discontinued or out of stock. Some place that actually *has* the stuff available... that seems to be the unicorn
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