Yes, I was happy to see no cratering of the firing pin strikes. However, I found some of the flattening rather extreme and alarming, particularly the following examples:
Far left on the bottom row of #1
Second from the left on the middle row in #2
Second & third from left on bottom row in #5
Flattening wasn't consistent even within batches of the same load. For example, look at the leftmost brass on both rows in #6. The top one looks fine, but the bottom one looks squashed.
I'll spill the beans a little by telling you that picture #4 matches up with my recipe #2 above, 8.0 grains of Blue Dot with a "normal" seating length (between 1.260" and 1.270"). #4 is also the only set of brass that looks entirely "normal" to me in how much the primers were squashed.
Far left on the bottom row of #1
Second from the left on the middle row in #2
Second & third from left on bottom row in #5
Flattening wasn't consistent even within batches of the same load. For example, look at the leftmost brass on both rows in #6. The top one looks fine, but the bottom one looks squashed.
I'll spill the beans a little by telling you that picture #4 matches up with my recipe #2 above, 8.0 grains of Blue Dot with a "normal" seating length (between 1.260" and 1.270"). #4 is also the only set of brass that looks entirely "normal" to me in how much the primers were squashed.