Separating Brass...LC vs LC Match
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FLIGHT762
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Separate. The regular LC will have to processed to remove the primer pocket crimps. The LC Match, does not have crimped primer pockets.
Kp321
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Another vote to separate the match brass. The match brass has not been through a mini gun or other full auto where the standard LC might have been.
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Vote to seperate too, I found my LC match was a little heavier denoting thicker walls depending on your loads , may see some variance in velocity or some pressure issue
When I was shooting M1a in NRA competition, I used to use the crimped LC for standing through the rapids, mostly because I lost the most brass in the grass and weeds in those stages. Garands were the worst, those things would fling brass more than ten feet away, regardless, a shooter has only so much time to crawl around in front of the firing line, pressing on the grass to find cases, before brass call is over. I would use the LC match prone slow fire. But if I shot bolt gun, I could not tell any difference on target between LC match and regular LC brass. I would group by headstamp as that made it easy to separate the brass by number of times reloaded and fired.
It does not hurt to sort by weight, develop your own histogram and figure out what are reasonable batch limits.
In so far as the ammunition, when LC was making ammunition for the National Matches, according to the American Rifleman of the early 1960's, LC Match was held to tighter production tolerances than standard issue ball. Ball had the 150 FMJ and was not very accurate, LC Match had the 174 FMJBT match bullet, obviously the bullet was not the only difference. I don't know what was going on in the years the 168 SMK or 175 SMK was used in the match ammunition, but I have been squadded with enough military shooters to hear them claim there were good lots and bad lots. Of course we all have good days and bad days, so without objective evidence, who knows.
I always liked LC brass, hoarded it, and shot well with it.
It does not hurt to sort by weight, develop your own histogram and figure out what are reasonable batch limits.
In so far as the ammunition, when LC was making ammunition for the National Matches, according to the American Rifleman of the early 1960's, LC Match was held to tighter production tolerances than standard issue ball. Ball had the 150 FMJ and was not very accurate, LC Match had the 174 FMJBT match bullet, obviously the bullet was not the only difference. I don't know what was going on in the years the 168 SMK or 175 SMK was used in the match ammunition, but I have been squadded with enough military shooters to hear them claim there were good lots and bad lots. Of course we all have good days and bad days, so without objective evidence, who knows.
I always liked LC brass, hoarded it, and shot well with it.
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