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I have a blue box of Black Hills 223 Rem and I will shoot this in my newly acquired Tikka. I can hardly read the head on the brass to see what brass it is. It was only when I read on Black Hills site that they use brass sourced from somewhere else. I had to look real hard and under natural light and I think I see it says LC. So this is Lake City brass and at least I do not use this in other rifles of that caliber.

So this brass is reloadable right? I think LC brass is thicker so this brass takes less powder right? are the LC brass good reloads?

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Military brass like LC is not necessarily thicker than commercial .223 brass. In my experience LC usually has the largest internal capacity.


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The only two times I have pulled the rim off a case was reloading LC brass out of Blue Box Black Hills.

Nothing wrong with it, just needed more case lube for what ever reason.

Other than that, it reloads fine.


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LC is not necessarily lower capacity than commercial and in fact is often higher capicity; it varies. You must measure it to know for sure.

Interesting read on it here:

http://www.6mmbr.com/223Rem.html


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