glc24
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I purchased 1,000 once fired military 5.56 cases with the Winchester headstamp, that are already cleaned, inspected. They were also deprimed and swaged using a Scharch machine. Info from the website stated that.
I checked every one with a pocket gauge and discarded roughly 2 dozen because of (I'm guessing) too much reaming. They weren't all as bad as the one in the picture, but IMO, bad enough.
I started priming them today. I look at every pocket, checking for media in the flash hole, before I prime (hand prime) and now I am noticing some "bad" flash holes. So far I've primed 200 and set 10 (so far) aside because of this. I'm assuming some primers may have been tougher than others to remove, but the machine doesn't care about extra resistance. It gets them out no matter what.
Should I just scrap these, or are they ok to use?
One other thing too is the fact that the force needed to insert the primer is all over the place. I think from now on, if I purchase once fired, they will most definitely be unprepared.