Sorry guys for hammering the questions here lately. I began shooting pistol matches at the club and getting ready for woodchuck season so I'm loading a lot and testing a lot so have questions.
Well here we go with the brass-I purchased 100pc of starling 38spl +p from midwayusa last week and just sat down to load and measured about 10 of the 100 pieces and the manuals state 1.145 as a trim length. well I have 1.140-1.151. I measured about 25 pieces and every one of them gives me a different length and yes my calipers are dead on as I trimmed some 223rem today to 1.750 and measured about 4 of them and all hit the same so the starline brass is all over the place.
I decided to run about 4 through the size die to see if it would correct it and it did not. Upon putting them back in the 100pc MTM box I also ordered I put them in upside down to make sure all of them were 38spl and they were but something off I noticed was a black or brown goop inside the primer pockets. I'm wondering if someone didn't already attempt to use these and just cleaned the pockets out and sent them back.
Send them back or load them up? In my newbie advice to myself is send them back because my OAL will be all over the place with mixed length brass?
Well here we go with the brass-I purchased 100pc of starling 38spl +p from midwayusa last week and just sat down to load and measured about 10 of the 100 pieces and the manuals state 1.145 as a trim length. well I have 1.140-1.151. I measured about 25 pieces and every one of them gives me a different length and yes my calipers are dead on as I trimmed some 223rem today to 1.750 and measured about 4 of them and all hit the same so the starline brass is all over the place.
I decided to run about 4 through the size die to see if it would correct it and it did not. Upon putting them back in the 100pc MTM box I also ordered I put them in upside down to make sure all of them were 38spl and they were but something off I noticed was a black or brown goop inside the primer pockets. I'm wondering if someone didn't already attempt to use these and just cleaned the pockets out and sent them back.
Send them back or load them up? In my newbie advice to myself is send them back because my OAL will be all over the place with mixed length brass?