FROGO207
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I was sizing/depriming ~3K assorted 38 SPL/ 357 range brass this morning before wet tumbling them. All were from a friend that has a private range and most appeared to be once fired and all were really clean. As I was depriming them on the SS press I noticed an occasional hang up and found that the head of the primer would separate from the body part way around and leave the body in the pocket. I have had this happen on severely corroded brass before but never on like new just fired brass. I ended up with 49 of them and all were PMC 38 SPL. Never did find the last one. No, they did not have crimped primer pockets or sealer! Also after a few problems I looked at the head stamps of all the brass and when I found more of them I inspected the primers and found they looked normal before I tried to deprime them. I suspect poor quality alloy in the primers to be the cause. Those of you that use progressives might want to watch out for this. BTW I have never had a problem with any other PMC brass in the past in any caliber including 38 SPL.