Are all 5 of these brass not reload-able?

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I know I won't try on the 3 right hand side but how about the 2 on the left? Absolutely not? Marginal? or only if you feel lucky? ;)

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Guess there is really nothing anyone can do about the 3 on right hand side right?
 
Why not, they're only dents?

You can use a bullet from another cartridge to open up the case mouths, just insert it point first and pry a bit. The expander ball on your dies might be able to do it without any help. The body dents are unsightly, but as long as it still chambers, I wouldn't worry about it.
 
The powder charge will flatten them right out, ready for the next denting as they bounce off the deflector. As long as there is no material missing or cracks I would reload those in a heartbeat, often the dents pop out in the die.
 
lavino said:
I know I won't try on the 3 right hand side but how about the 2 on the left? Absolutely not? Marginal? or only if you feel lucky? ;)

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Guess there is really nothing anyone can do about the 3 on right hand side right?
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Personally I would run all three through my size die and see how the neck comes out. I'm not worried about the little dents in the case wall, and a misshaped case mouth is reshaped by the size die. The only two things that really cause me to throw out 223 brass are a crack somewhere, or if after the resize the mouth still has a short spot ('case length' is shorter one one side in the dent than the rest of the mouth). The dents in the body will fire form out when you shoot it.
 
Full length size them and you're probably good to go. Some rifles just do that to brass no matter what. My Swiss Arms used to do that to all brass.
A little lighter loads or lighter projectiles might make smaller dents in your future cases but that also depends on the rifle.
 
As an experiment many years ago, I took a 303 British case that had been mangled [partly flattened, with numerous dents, but no deep scratches]
and opened up the neck with a pointed bullet, then FL sized it. It still looked pretty sad. Loaded it with a 150 Hornady and 40 grains of IMR 4895.
After firing, you would not have believed how good it looked. OP, those minor dents will iron right out once you fire the loaded round. D.
 
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