Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles IMI vs LC vs Lapua 5.56/223 brass

One thing about it, here range brass is in good supply. I've brought this up before and some guys won't pick up brass just laying there for the taking, like it is the plague. Some here have said you can't trust it. That may be true if you don't know what you are looking at. I rarely pick up range brass anymore, now that I have a good supply of it, but that is the only reason. I remember picking up a chit ton of it in one range trip. That was enough to supply me for quite a few years. Something like 1,000 FC once fired and close to the same amount of PMC. Back when PMC bronze ammo was cheap. One thing I liked about that brass was I did not have to swage the primer pockets. I've found both the PMC and FC to be good quality brass. The FC is likely the same exact chidt as LC, since Federal had the military contract for quite some time. As we know, not all federal brass is created equal, but if it has the scamp marks it is likely good stuff:

Since no one has mentioned FC brass with scamp marks. Something to keep an eye out for. ^^

I know I've been pretty happy with this batch of range pickup from about 4 years ago. Still using it and it's still going strong. This was one of the first groups I fired with that range pick up brass:


Then with my Northtech Defense:


And then more recently with the same rifle and load:


And then with my new BCM. Load with that FC range pick up brass still working pretty good:

It's hard to complain about something that works so well.