New brass???

[glang1]

I just bought my first bag of new brass. When I started looking at the cases I was surprised to see the condition of some of them. Dings & dents, & most of the case mouths were seriously out of round. I have included a picture. The case on the right has been sized, the case on the left is how most of the necks looked. Is this normal for new brass? or has this bag just taken a lot of abuse in handling? Is it normal to have to size new brass? I ended up treating it all just like I do fired brass.

George

 

[overthetop]

Hm not cool. Must have been beat up a bit.

 

[CyaN1de]

Definitely been beat to sh!t

 

[SA-Lefty]

All the bags of brass i have ever bought, the necks of cases were always out of round and because of this all my cases are FL sized, trimmed and then tumbled to clean them.

 

[Silverado]

Totally common for bagged bulk brass. Just resize 'em. After the first firing, any body dents get ironed out and there you go.

 

[Lefty Dick]

X2 on totally normal.
What do you expect they are shipped in a plastic bag, and probably 10 bags to a box.
chink, chink, thump,bump, thump, chink, bang, thump, bump.......................................... goes the shipment.

 

[RePete]

All the bags of brass i have ever bought, the necks of cases were always out of round and because of this all my cases are FL sized, trimmed and then tumbled to clean them.

Totally common for bagged bulk brass. Just resize 'em. After the first firing, any body dents get ironed out and there you go.

X2 on totally normal.
What do you expect they are shipped in a plastic bag, and probably 10 bags to a box.
chink, chink, thump,bump, thump, chink, bang, thump, bump.......................................... goes the shipment.

As above, normal for bagged brass.

Even with boxed brass it's recommended that you resize prior to reloading.

 

[maynard]

Normal for bulk brass. Now if you would have bought Lapua brass I would say it was beat to s**t. Although I always resize new brass (even Lapua), I have been told you can just load Lapua right out of the box without resizing first.