Fiocchi 223 brass reloadable?

[Bullseye]

I was reading through old threads and saw that flash holes were off center in this ammo and depriming pins get broken.
I split an order of 1000 with my shooting buddy but have not shot any yet.
Is this still the case with this brass? I could care less about reloading them since the work involved hardly makes it cost saving to me, but he might be disappointed and I want to give him a heads up if this is an issue.

 

[otisrush]

I've reloaded it. Not sure how many....but no broken on yet. I don't think it is considered high quality. But it goes bang every time for me. Primer pockets are pretty tight.

 

[Rule3]

I do not have any personally and would have to look at it. That said, they have been making ammo for a long long time and would not think their ammo is inferior,

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/18...3-remington-50-grain-hornady-v-max-ammunition

 

[mstreddy]

I've loaded a couple hundred of their brass in 223 and no issues.

 

[GLOOB]

Never had any issue with Fiocchi in 223.

 

[Dudedog]

Reloaded ok once I got the primers out. Some were ok some had flash holes way off center.....


Pics here
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=748343

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Use a cheap Lee Universal depriming die. If you break that depriming the brass, you're being too ham-fisted.

 

[Hondo 60]

I haven't noticed off-center flash holes.
My Fiocchi & GFL brass have been reloaded 4 or 5 times.

No problems here.

 

[rogn]

I bought abunch of "Perfecta" 223 ammo from Walmart at a ridiculous price. A little research revealed it was manufactured by Fiocchi and distributed by Tulammo. It shot well, was reliable, reasonably accurate, and functioned well. It was fairly dirty though. On a whim I neck sized a few cases and tested feeding and extraction and surprisingly they worked well. I have extended this testing with the cases being run thru a Lee collet die, up to 5 loadings with no malfunctions. Accuracy of roads is on a par with Other brass sa LC. The "staked" primers are not done well and staking probably doesn't work well, but it cleaned up easily. If I can find more of the Stuff I intend to buy a bunch of it.

 

[Bullseye]

KansasSasquatch:

Use a cheap Lee Universal depriming die. If you break that depriming the brass, you're being too ham-fisted.

I will do just that and discard any off center trouble makers. Thanks everyone for the info. I expect a hit and miss situation depending on the lot.

 

[Rule3]

You may like to read about Fiocchi here in the USA.

http://fiocchi.gunsamerica.com/about/

http://fiocchi.gunsamerica.com/ammunition/centerfire-msrvarmint/

 

[tcoz]

I've reloaded plenty of their 300 BLK cases without a problem.

 

[xcalibor67]

Just finished off a 1k round case and have reloaded prolly 100 rounds with absolutely no ill affects. Although it may not be Lapua, I would rank it up with the best Remington can put out, I did notice the primer pockets were a bit snug, but to me nothing undue, and this is a good thing in my book...I would much rather have snug pockets than floppy pockets, ya know what I mean vern...