Re: Should I buy 7.62 NATO & 5.56 NATO IVI brass

Doc M said:
I agree with others; and I'll also say that the Lake City brass I recently purchased from you is FANTASTIC. I can second the comments of others regarding MG-fired rounds being a bit harder to size at the base, even with a TON of lube, but with some patience and elbow grease they still go.

I'd definitely buy IVI if it were available and I had, say, an M14-style rifle that needed feeding. For now, my thousand LC05-06-07 cases will last me in my bolt-action Savage... but there are a LOT of guys tired of paying $0.75-1.05 a loaded round from the factory and still wanting to blast with their M305 Norc's or Springfield M1A's.

-M
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I have a great stash of Lake City, it is my preferred brass out there. IVI would be my second. Used to stock up on it years ago in the states when you could buy it for $25 per thousand 1x fired. Since getting brass across the border now requires too much paperwork its easier to find IVI brass unless you are shooting AE stuff which uses the LC cases.
 
shootemup said:
What about 7.62 NATO blank brass...I have about 50 rds and I'm wondering if it is reloadable?
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It is not worth your while, and what you end up with is sub-standard. The 7.62 mm blank uses a long crimped extension to mimc the bullet. You need to cut that off, and then expand the neck as the hole is smaller than bullet diameter. You will find that the brass is not particularly uniform once you do that, as they don't need to keep it to specification for a bullet when they make blanks.
After all that there is no guarantee it shoot.
Lots of .308 brass available.
 
I use IVI 5.56 exclusively in my Savage 110 .223. The initial sizing and primer pocket prep is a PITA , but I am into my 6th reload with no signs of case distress.
 
How is IVI .223/5.56 brass for reloading compared to other brass with crimped primers, like PMC?
 
I remove primer pocket crimping by chucking the case in a drill and using a Lee chamfer tool. Depending on how much brass you have to process, you might want to consider buying a Dillon primer pocket swager.
 
IVI 7.62 is heaver (~185 grains IIRC) than commercial brass (new Winchester ~156, Norma 165-ish, Lapua 173-ish). Interestingly, IVI 762 necks are quite thin.

IVI 556 seems to me to be similar in weight to the commercial brass I've compared it against (they're all 100 grains more or less)....?

Since there is the additional step of primer pocket swaging involved, I would want to pay less for IVI 1x brass than for commercial 1x brass. Perhaps as much as 15 cents for 223 and 20 cents for 762, if desperate for brass. Would have to be less than 10 cents each before I'd consider it a "deal" and buy it in any quantity.
 
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