Warning on F&S brass

[Tomme boy]

I ran into a bunch of this brass today. They are 223 Rem with the F&S head stamp. Pretty sure it is Field and Stream as we have one of the stores here.

Well the flash holes are extremely small. I broke the decapper rod that came with the swage kit for the APP press. And the rod on my full length die before I figured out what it was doing.

Some were fine and then some were not. They all went to the scrap bucket after this. Just a heads up in case someone runs into some of these.

 

[Bret4207]

I think I would have drilled them out before tossing a bunch.

 

[fiver]

field and stream?
ain't they the alter ego of Dick's,,, you know the place that won't sell guns no more cause they are dangerous.

 

[dale2242]

Field & Stream and Dicks has seen the last of my business since then.

 

[Tomme boy]

I think I would have drilled them out before tossing a bunch.

When you have a 55 gal barrel full of 556 brass a hundred junk ones is not a problem.

I picked up a 5 gal bucket of mixed brass today at the local range. Mostly 556 but a BUNCH of LC 7.62x51 brass. Most of that was reloaded 1x already. I know where they got it from. There is a commercial reloader that makes some very good ammo here. One of the only places I would ever buy loaded ammo from. I know him personally and have seen the checks he does on his ammo. He is also a gun manufacturer. Sold over 2K Ar's last year.

 

[fiver]

and all the work has been done to the cases too.
I used to buy ultramax reloaded ammo for like 6$ per 50 for fmj, and about 7$ for 55gr. soft-points.

 

[Tomme boy]

Ultramax was my goto ammo before I started reloading. 50rnd boxes of 50gr vmax for the 223 heavy barrel H&R I had at the time. That thing had such a long throat that a 69gr Sierra hpbt would fall out of the case before it touched the lands. Shot a bunch of coyotes with that gun.

Going through some of the brass tonite and there were about 40 rnds of 6.5 Creed that I thought were all 7.62's. I don't remember picking them up????? But I leave my bucket behind me while shooting and people walk up and throw there brass in it all the time. It must be where they came from. Bunch of 300blk too if anyone needs any. I think they were all gfs or something like that. All factory

 

[fiver]

probably GFL which is fiocchi.
pretty decent stuff.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I bought a “MIGHTY MIGHT” decamping die back when I started loading 357 Sig. Speer stuff uses very small flash holes and my die set used a headless pin. So after 5-10 cases I didn’t have a capping pin it was severely lodged in the case.
Thes MM die uses a super tough TAPERED pin. Making decamping less effort and size of hole meaningless. (It’s largest dia was same as most LR sizes.)



I don’t use it on all, But I do on 223/556/300 range pickups!! Ever a broken pin regardless of how severely they might be crimped.
I had a couple “Indestructible LEE Decappers... yea... no they ain’t.

cw