Reloading military brass

[1moa@500]

Last week a friend gave me a hundred rounds of surplus 30-06. The head stamp reads fn 57 or 58. I loaded several of them into enblock clips and headed to the range. Much to my surprise I had several hang fires and failures to fire, pretty scarry. My question is can I reuse the brass? There are three holes, one main flashhole and two smaller ones. I pulled the bullets and saved the powder. Are these components safe to use? The bullets look good and weigh 150 grains. The powder is of ball type and for an average of 10 rounds the charge is 50 grains. Is using any of these components a good idea or false economy.
Thanks in advance
JSWIII

 

[cdrt]

Sounds like Berdan primed. Not worth the effort to reload. You can recycle the brass. The bullets would be okay, but I would dump the powder since you don't really know what it is.

 

[ants]

Berdan does not have a main flash hole. That's where the anvil is located.

 

[nambu1]

Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (FN), Herstal, Belgium. Sounds like someone reloaded berdan primed brass by sizing them and punching the berdan primers. Most of the time the boxer primers are slightly smaller than the berdan and will come out when fired.

 

[rcmodel]

Toss the brass.

Three flash holes is a very bad sign!

The bullets & powder can be reused.

rcmodel