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I've read that Federal .223 Rem brass is poorly rated and that most of the issues have to do with primer pockets....
Well I wound up with a bag of 100 Federal cases and thought I'd give them a try for my "plinker" rounds.
The older looking cases with primer pockets that were not crimped were indeed loose and the primers went in with little to no effort, but I couldn't seem to dislodge the primers, so I went ahead and loaded them.
On the cases that had crimped primers, I reamed the primer pockets and found that the primers seated nice and snug....
but...
they sure looked deep....
I'm used to seeing them 2-3 thousandths below the base on RP and Win brass.
but when I put the depth probe of my calipers on these, they were 10 thousandths below the base.
Should I be concerned?
Well I wound up with a bag of 100 Federal cases and thought I'd give them a try for my "plinker" rounds.
The older looking cases with primer pockets that were not crimped were indeed loose and the primers went in with little to no effort, but I couldn't seem to dislodge the primers, so I went ahead and loaded them.
On the cases that had crimped primers, I reamed the primer pockets and found that the primers seated nice and snug....
but...
they sure looked deep....
I'm used to seeing them 2-3 thousandths below the base on RP and Win brass.
but when I put the depth probe of my calipers on these, they were 10 thousandths below the base.
Should I be concerned?