I've been working over a batch of a few thousand once-fired .223 / 5.56 cases that I got from a friend's estate. This was picked up off a police range, so it's mostly been fired in department issued AR-15s. It's a mix of .223 and 5.56, commercial and military headstamps.
This is my first time working over a batch of once-fired .223, though I've done some military surplus 7.62x51 before. My procedure is:
This is my first time working over a batch of once-fired .223, though I've done some military surplus 7.62x51 before. My procedure is:
- Deprime
- Short wet-tumble with pins and Dawn
- Swage the prime pockets
- Full-length resize
- Trim using a file-type trim die
- Longer wet-tumble
- Done!
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