Ive been shooting match federal once fired 308 stuff since about 1989. Some of mine is not all that new either, IE might not have anything much newer than about 1998 or so.
But for all that I have, and knowing that FC is junk in 223, I've yet to have any problem with 308 FC brass that I have. Some of it has over 10 warm loads of 185 bergers in it for my bolt gun.
FWIW it did not hold up to the M1As beating the brass up as good as LC did, but it never was an issue with loose pockets, seperations and such.
Typically a case head seperation is the brass is being sized way too much and then fired and sized again. Simply that the size die is not set for that individual guns chamber.
Loose primer pockets are either high pressure or soft brass.
It's not my sizing of the cases, I use case gauges and NO OTHER MAKE of brass has the issues in the same guns.
Remington told me the cases were the reason for the catastrophic failure I had.
The issue has happened in multiple guns, with multiple powders and charges, and multiple bullet weights and styles.
I've been loading for awhile now and in over 30yrs the only issues I've ever had was with federal cases, and I'm not the only one.
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