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Posted: 6/29/2013 12:49:53 PM EDT
I'm trying to sort brass that needs primer pockets to be swaged. The first one says LC 10. But doesn't have the NATO headstamp like lake city brass.  This one says PSD or PSO 10.  |
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http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=headstampcodes#P
Here is a handy resource for researching case headstamps. Yours appears to be PSD which is in Korea. As for how to tell if you need to de-swage and you are not sure after visual inspection, then you sort as you deprime. If the deprime feedback shows that your pocket was swaged or crimped, then it should go in one bucket. If it was already done, into another. The cross in the stamp isn't the differentiating factor in crimped or not crimped for LC brass. That is just how they distinguish the contract and specification. |
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Quoted: I'm trying to sort brass that needs primer pockets to be swaged. Here's the simple answer, you will rarely find a piece of 223/5.56 brass that doesn't have a crimped primer, crimped primers in those calibers are SOP. Some Remington commercial brass isn't crimped, some Winchester commercial brass isn't crimped, but most is. Since 5.56 is a military caliber designed to be used in automatic rifles, all 5.56 is crimped, and almost all 223 is crimped as well. Rule of thumb, its all crimped. |
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I'm trying to sort brass that needs primer pockets to be swaged. Here's the simple answer, you will rarely find a piece of 223/5.56 brass that doesn't have a crimped primer, crimped primers in those calibers are SOP. Some Remington commercial brass isn't crimped, some Winchester commercial brass isn't crimped, but most is. Since 5.56 is a military caliber designed to be used in automatic rifles, all 5.56 is crimped, and almost all 223 is crimped as well. Rule of thumb, its all crimped. Most of my PMC .223 brass isn't crimped. I bought 1000 online and found maybe 20-30 that were crimped, but most weren't. My go to brass. |
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I'm trying to sort brass that needs primer pockets to be swaged. Here's the simple answer, you will rarely find a piece of 223/5.56 brass that doesn't have a crimped primer, crimped primers in those calibers are SOP. Some Remington commercial brass isn't crimped, some Winchester commercial brass isn't crimped, but most is. Since 5.56 is a military caliber designed to be used in automatic rifles, all 5.56 is crimped, and almost all 223 is crimped as well. Rule of thumb, its all crimped. Most of my PMC .223 brass isn't crimped. I bought 1000 online and found maybe 20-30 that were crimped, but most weren't. My go to brass. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I'm trying to sort brass that needs primer pockets to be swaged. Here's the simple answer, you will rarely find a piece of 223/5.56 brass that doesn't have a crimped primer, crimped primers in those calibers are SOP. Some Remington commercial brass isn't crimped, some Winchester commercial brass isn't crimped, but most is. Since 5.56 is a military caliber designed to be used in automatic rifles, all 5.56 is crimped, and almost all 223 is crimped as well. Rule of thumb, its all crimped. Ok thanks. Cause I was comparing some lake city to some others and I could not tell the difference. So I gather swaging all the brass isn't a bad thing? |
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