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Lake City 5.56 brass

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mr.big

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I never used this stuff,but just got 1000 pieces off gunbroker,,once fired,fl sized,polished,trimmed,and the crimp removed for 184$ shipped to the house,,,

with new brass hittin close to 300 I had to try it,,lol

anybody use the stuff and is it as tough as they claim???
 
I used it long ago. They used to sell it in a 55 gal drum at the scrap yards in Memphis. The primer was a real pain to get out, in fact it broke my reloading enq and I had to use a hammer and Lee Loader. 1,000 took a while but I got em. That brass stood up to several loadings and I still have a good number of fully loaded ones.
 
The Lake City brass is usually thicker than alot of brass. Dop your chage a few grains and work back up with this brass.

I have only used their brass in 308 and it is very good brass.
 
I just bought 200 LC Match 308 brass that has been once fired. I prepped 50 tonight. The brass is thicker and is so much harder to resize. I'm going to prep the rest and that will be it for me and LC brass. I'll stick with Win., FC, Hornady, and RP brass.
 
As long as it wasn't fired through M249 SAW's you should be good to go. A lot of the 5.56mm from LC is fired through SAW's their loose chambers and viloent extraction causes the brass to fail via incipient case head seperation. I use only once-fired LC brass fired by me through my AR's. Hope this helps ;)
 
Back in January I bought 10K LC once fired for $300. It was in an estate sale and had been in storage since the 80's. I already knew the history of this stuff. It was originally fired and picked up at a local Army rifle range and had only been shot thru M16's. It was already deprimed and ready for primer pocket swaging. If I ever get some spare time I'll load it, shoot a few and stash the rest for hard(harder)times.
 

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