S&B Brass

Ian

Notorious member
Thanks for the tip, I found the one you have on Azon for $83 and got lost for a few minutes down the rabbit hole of suggested product ads.....
 

Spindrift

Well-Known Member
Has anyone had any experience with the primer pocket swager that comes with the new Lee APP press?


I’ve used used a bit of S&B rifle brass, lots of it in the brass bucket at the ranges around here. It has worked well for me. I’ve removed the primer pocket crimp with a lyman uniformer, or just the Lee deburring tool. Removing the crimp by hand is no sweat with a few rifle cases, but I can see how it gets tiresome with hundreds of handgun cases.
The S&B 30-06 range pick-ups form nice 35 Whelen cases with no annealing or anything.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Just prior to Y2K, I bought bulk S&B 9 mm brass from either Mid-South or Natchez. I had zero problems with it. In fact my records show that I got 15 reloadings out of it.

When I buy 9mm range brass, it yields quite a bit of S&B brass and it too has been trouble free.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Little-to-no experience with S&B brass of any flavor.

No need to go offshore to find brass that gives FITS about primer fit. There was a run of W-W 9mm brass that my shop used for about 5 years in the late 1990s, and that miserable %$^# stuff had the balkiest, nastiest, and tightest small pistol primer pockets I have ever encountered in my life. I tried swaging (RCBS)--reaming (counter-sink)--it REFUSED to seat a primer without ridiculously high seating pressure. After a year of off-and-on trying and failing, I just tossed the lot of it and got some R-P bulk brass and called it GOOD. I still have some of that hanging around, and it is slowly being replaced by Starline brass--which is drama-free.
 

quicksylver

Well-Known Member
at one time , back in the late 90's S&Bwas about all anyone used .223 ,.45ACP , .9MM I love the .223 brass and have k's of 1x fired i still use,on the on the other hand American Eagle .45ACP cases are out right dangerous
 

Ian

Notorious member
American Eagle .45ACP cases are out right dangerous

Why do you say that? I use more of those than any other .45 case. I did find one batch of about 50 that had huge flash holes for some reason, but have found a few Winchester cases that did also and culled those out.