223/556 brass opinions requested

[chas442]

I was gifted a box of indoor range brass that consisted of about 70 lbs of 223 and 556 brass. It contains brands that I recognize and one that I am not so familiar with. The headstamp is PSD. I researched it to find its South Korean.
What I am most interested is how the reloading gurus rank the brass that I have. The brass that I have is:
Lake City various Years
WCC
PMC
PMP
PSD
R-P
Winchester
IVI
Hornady

 

[Ifishsum]

PSD is the NATO version of PMC..same brass as far as I can tell except for the primer crimp that must be removed in the PSD. I've had good luck with both, many off center flash holes but not off enough to cause problems decapping or with load consistency, for my purposes anyway.

LC ranks tops in my book if I know it is once fired. Takes work to prep the primer pockets the first time but worth it. If the crimp has already been removed before I get my hands on it, I don't value it nearly as highly. I like to know it's only been fired once.

I have probably 1000 RP brass with up to 5 loads on it, have not had a single issue as yet. I don't have a lot of Winchester brass and what I have has only been loaded 3 times, fairly hot but it's been just fine. WCC is NATO spec winchester but I haven't loaded any myself. I like Hornady in other cartridges (bolt rifles) but have not used it in the AR. I generally like to use a different brass for different match loads for quick ID and I haven't loaded any of the others because I don't have enough for their own batch yet. Would be hard to rank them as I've had pretty much equal success/longevity with all I've mentioned so far.

 

[Rule3]

It all works.
Unless you are a high tech, comp, benchrest shooter once it's all cleaned, sized and trimmed, will you know the difference?

 

[JO JO]

Lc works great fo me , you do need to remove the crimp but it is just once

 

[luzyfuerza]

IVI seems to be harder or thicker-walled. At least the stuff I've seen. Hard to resize. If you're going to cut it down for 300 blk cases you have to watch the neck brass thickness.

 

[hdwhit]

I've had all of those headstamps except PSD and Hornaday. All of them fit in the shell holder, resized as expected, seated the primer snugly, held the bullet tightly and went "bang" when I pulled the trigger.

Of course, I'm only interested in being able to hit human-size or white tail deer-sized silhouettes at 200 meters, so I wouldn't be aware of the things that might impact someone who is concerned about minute of angle accuracy at 1,000 meters.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

All the brass you have is quality. I think the Lack City is the best and the Israeli brass is close. WCC is made by Winchester and probably has a crimped primer. Remington is probably the thinnest but not so thin as to be bad. You got very lucky.

 

[chas442]

Thanks for all of the imput. I've got 3/4 cleaned and about 3/4 of that sorted. Not looking forward to all that resizing, pocket swaging and trimming. I just can't leave brass alone. It has to have primers, powder and projectiles.

 

[chas442]

I came across another headstamp that I am not familiar with. The only thing on the case is an M193 at 12 o'clock and 08 at 6 o'clock. I am assuming 2008 production. Anyone recognize it?

 

[ArchAngelCD]

M193 is an older military ammo designation. It's probably either Federal or LC brass. I don't remember hearing of any ammo marked that way. M193 ammo was loaded with a 55gr bullet before the military changed over to the 62gr bullet in the M855 ammo.

 

[ColoradoShooter77]

I've been shooting Remington brass, once fired, that I bought 5 years ago. I'd guess some of it has 6 loads on it, no issues at all.

Lake City is nice stuff, I've shot some factory ammo and reloaded the cases.....good stuff.

PMC is fine, not alot of experience with Winchester.