Are these reloads or am I just paranoid?

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Primers that look like they were already striked. Do you think so?
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I have no doubt that they are reloads, but I don't think the primers were struck. It looks to me like they were seated with a hand primer with the small primer rod installed and dented them. I've done that on accident myself when I forgot to change it.
 
Jeez, what a bunch of shenanigans.. now he has to contact who he got them from.. yadda yadda, if that's true. Good thing you caught that though.. probably a lot of people wouldn't or couldn't or wouldn't care. The main thing is the primer crimp on that military case has been removed.. also, never buy "once fired" military brass that's been deprimed and the primer crimp removed.. there's no way to prove that that brass is once fired.. the only proof is the crimp.
 
Get your magazines back and tell the soul you traded to that you do not appreciate being lied to.

I am in agreement with the board here. These are reloads. They have the NATO cross on the cases, but no crimps?????? Pull marks on bullets? Sideways primer?
Ejection dents?

Good luck and your post was a most appropriate query.

Dave
 
I say they're reloads.
The sideways primer is something I've never seen in factory ammo.
And the different brass is is also something you're not gonna see.
 
The first big give away for me was the brass has obviously been polished to remove the annealing color. I have never seen a piece of new m855 that did not have darker brass where it was annealed.
 
Hope that guy didn't skip town with your mags. To me those are reloads, pretty sure of it. If I buy ammo from some one, I tear them apart anyway unless they are sealed factory boxes. But since I've reloaded most of my gun buying days. And if I buy someones ammo that they claim is factory, I tear it apart and use for components. Never shoot anyone else's reloads, I buy them all the time at auction. Dump the powder.
 
absolutely reloads. :cuss: I don't shoot other peoples reloads and I certainly wouldn't break that rule for those rounds!...they are shiny though! :evil:
 
It's military headstamped brass without a crimp on top of everything else mentioned.
 
I think reloads would be a real dis-service to the reloading community. I would vote for junk. Those are sorry and ugly. If there was as much care put in the inside as the out, you would be really foolish to try them.
 
^^^^ I agree they look like someone that just started reloading threw together a bunch of stuff with little care to get some money back. Not on my life would I trust those as reloads let alone call them "factory".
 
Definitely reloads.
---Primer crimps removed (hogged out would be a more accurate description)
---No sign of annealing (Cases are also polished up like a diamond in a goats butt)
---They don't have Amerc headstamps (The only factory ammo that looks near that bad)

If you've still got any of the ammo, try testing the bullets with a strong magnet.
If they're not attracted to it, they're not even M855.
 
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