A MERC 45 acp cases

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They are generally thought of as junk and almost universally discarded. I've never personally come across them but have heard their flash holes are off center, the cases are out of round, etc.

If you have other options to reload I wouldn't bother with the AMERC stuff.
 
I've had some that worked, some that didn't. Not my 1st choice of brass, that's for sure. If you have issues with them, put 'em in your "recycle brass" pile and when you get enough, take the pile to the recyclers and trade it for something else (i.e.; lead)!
 
They are crap. Inconsistent, usually thin brass commonly found to have off center flash holes. They crack early, have poor neck tension in many cases. They just arent work messing with. Straight in the bucket if I get them.
 
The only problems I have ever had with brass have ALWAYS had an A MERC headstamp. I use mostly range pickups for handgun reloading. I would hear from other people to stay away from A MERC brass. I never act on others folks prejudices. Last time after shooting about 1k reloads of 3 calibers, we had 4 failures to chamber and all were A MERC. Time before that was similar. Draw your own conclusions.
 
They are nothing but trash and shouldn't be reloaded, generally they are shoot once and discard.

I won't buy AMERC anything and if I find any they get smashed immediately so they don't get accidently mixed in with my reloadable brass.
 
Actually I like AMERC cases. They are great for putting in those mud holes in the driveway when it's raining, and then when it dries out they are like reinforced concrete. Other than that............:barf:
 
I've loaded a few in .45ACP, .40S&W, and 9mm Luger, and none have ever failed to function as designed. Still, based on the consensus and the fact that I have plenty without them, I recycle them now.
 
The 100 or so (mix of .45 and 9mm) were all pretty much junk. Case mouths splitting upon resizing and undersized flash holes. I can't recall any off-center flash holes but after being resized I could see where the decapper actually had to punch through excess brass to get to the primers. I tossed them out after resizing about 20 of each caliber. If I notice them at the range I actually avoid picking them up even though they're worth scrap money.
 
You can normally get 1 reload out of them before they will split. I use them when I'm not going to be picking my brass up. Since they where going into the recycle bin. Nothing lost.
 
I generally only notice headstamps in pistol cartridges when they malfunction while reloading, so it is entirely possible that I have several functional AMERC cases, but when I have a problem with brass that is not related to crimped primers, it is almost always an AMERC case. (or operator error, or the loadmaster and I disagreeing over whether or not a particular case should have a properly seated primer) They are the only 9mm cases I have ever seen split at the mouth.
 
I had some older 38 SPL or 357 brass that had off center primer holes IIRC. But I have and still use 9MM, 45 ACP, and 380 brass from A-MERC that have worked the same as other brands so I continue to use them. YMMV
 
Hondo 60-yeap i'm still here! Lets see if I got it right, the sooner they split the better off I am- correct?
 
I don't run into much A-Merc brass, but every time I'm loading 45 on my LNL AP and something doesn't "feel right" or just plain doesn't work, A-Merc's are involved.
 
AMERC is definitely an unloved brass. Not sure what makes it so crappy, but I couldn't get it to work either.
 
I had some 38 Spl Amerc brass that was out of spec far enough that it wouldn't even go into the shell holder properly. Some was too wide at the base while others had too small a rim and would pop out of the shell holder.
 
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