Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Crimped primers

That sucks. I was at the range yesterday and saw a pile of LC brass. I mean it was all over the place. I left it laying there. Its not worth my time or effort. Strange how the FC brass I picked up a few years ago didn't have crimped primers? I picked up a chidt load of PMC at the same time. All factory loaded stuff, none of it was crimped. I'm still loading that stuff. The primer pockets on the FC were tight, but not crimped. Didn't have to use a swaging tool and have long since cleaned all of it and primed it. Shoots great for free brass... I did run across some winchester brass that was crimped the other day and also found some nice Norma brass that I was excited to find, but when I got it home and broke a decapping pin, it too went into the scrap bin. Wondering why companies have to crimp the primer pockets on their 223 brass now?

To keep blown primers from getting down into the trigger of AR type rifles.

Found/stole a picture of the big vs small FC headstamps.



The one on the bottom with the big FC is the headstamp that can have the issue with primer pockets.

The small FC case on the top is crimped and in my experience is ok, but not as good as the multi-dotted cases. It is the only FC .223 Rem that does not have some type of dot/dots, all of which are crimped.