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#10MinuteTalk - Reloading Crappy Crimped Range Brass?

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Crimped cases may seem like a pain-in-the-brass, but are actually pretty darn simple to prep for reloading. In this podcast we cover what a crimped case is, how to identify it, and how to get rid of the crimp. If watching on YouTube, you can see us do it. If you’re a “brass rat”, but cull every crimper you come by, you may want to reconsider.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, we got 10 minutes here with Mr. Ryan Muckiner and we've got some stuff

0:08.3

between Ryan Mark and myself on the table here.

0:11.1

We are going to talk a bit about cartridges and some reloading stuff.

0:15.9

This is for all you folks out there who are brass rats on the range, thinking about becoming

0:21.2

a brass rat.

0:22.2

You're looking around for that 223 brass to be reloading in today's crazy day and age

0:27.0

of ammo and reloading components, shortages everywhere.

0:31.2

Ryan, I think the question here is, let's say you're finding that particularly dirty beat

0:36.0

up basically just, I mean, everybody else sees it as junk.

0:40.0

What I call garbage pale brass.

0:42.6

Garbage pale brass.

0:43.6

You've got a whole pale right there.

0:45.1

When it looks like you swept it off of a gravel floor because you probably picked it off

0:53.6

one.

0:54.6

There's even in this container, I have little bits of grass.

1:00.4

Here's a nine millimeter case.

1:02.0

So yeah, reloading is tough right now, ammo is tough right now, a lot of stuff is tough

1:06.6

right now.

1:07.6

But if you still like to shoot and you find yourself going to these, you know, public ranges

1:12.9

where you're getting brass from law enforcement agencies, you're picking up all the bulk stuff.

1:18.6

A lot of it is in a state of disrepair and may even be able to, like, may be difficult

1:24.3

to reload just due to kind of the mechanisms employed with bulk ammunition.

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