Viking painter
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- Jan 11, 2023
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So I stopped by a garage sale today because there was a sign that said “ garage sale/guns/reloading components “, and needless to say stuffed on the brakes and turned around like a f22 engaging the enemy. As I walked in the garage I was greeted by some of the nicest people I could have encountered and the man had a buttload of brass, dies, projectiles, presses, you name it, looked like he was a oem ammunition manufacturer (turns out he was). I’ve been buying up all the lc 5.56 nato brass I can get my hands on lately and asked him if he had any. He pointed to 4x 5 gallon buckets and said” if you don’t take those, they’re going to the scrap yard tomorrow, give me thirty bucks”. I popped the lids to take a quick look and it was like I just found a 100 lb gold nugget! I quickly gave him the money and he asked if I loaded any other calibers and of course I named off all the calibers I loaded for so he started filling another bucket with .308, 300 blk, 38 spcl,357 mag, 6.5 cm, 9mm, ect and said take this with you too, along with all the dies for all of them! I was walking on clouds to say the least and thanked him numerous times and quickly went home to check out and take stock of my loot. First bucket I opened had all LC NATO cases, mostly lc14 and lc 84. I noticed almost all the 80s cases do not have the NATO cross or scamp machine bubbles on them. My question is, when did they start marking them with the cross and bubbles and is pre cross lc brass better, same, or worse quality? I figure if all 4 buckets have the same ratio of lc NATO brass in them, I will end up with about 15k-16k cases!