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We happened to be in the right place at the right time today. This can is full of 50 BMG Lake City brass. We may go into the 50 BMG brass business once these are cleaned and sized!
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wonder what % of them are still good. i can see one with a split base, one with a rather odd shaped neck. all of them look pretty corroded.
 
Good luck, fill yer boots. That is some pretty crappy stuff. Anyone with a precision gun would likely cringe if they used that brass in their rifles.
 
Looks like a good score! Mostly the brass looks dirty not really corroded. Run it through some liquid cleaner and a tumbler and I bet it comes out looking pretty shiney. I don't know how well it will be re-sized as machine guns have nice big sloppy chambers but hopefully it passes a .50 BMG case gauge test and you are set.
 
I think you found a good score. Give it a thorough cleaning and resize and I'm sure you will have entirely functional brass. Re sizing might be the catch though...

I'm intreuged to see it all cleaned and sized.

Out of curiosity, what is the headstamp?
 
Lake City 04 and some 07. It has only been in the elements for a few days. The rain out here makes brass get green fuzz as it reacts with the burnt powder within hours if wet. After 30 minutes in a tumbler it looks new. If the brass you are using is Mil surplus it will have looked like this at one time in it's life after first being used if not done so in a dry environment.
 
I guess there is only one downside to posting your score of brass on an open forum that has obviously been made in the states and not approved for export since sometime shortly after Sept 11, 2001. I guess this is why we only have brass with head stamps of LC00 or IVI 95.
Aside from that,
I hope you have something more then a Lee 50cal press to resize that brass or you'll be folding it up in the process of resizing. You guys on the west coast have too much time on your hands.
 
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Glock-a-maniac said:
I guess there is only one downside to posting your score of brass on an open forum that has obviously been made in the states and not approved for export since sometime shortly after Sept 11, 2001. I guess this is why we only have brass with head stamps of LC00 or IVI 95.
Aside from that,
I hope you have something more then a Lee 50cal press to resize that brass or you'll be folding it up in the process of resizing. You guys on the west coast have too much time on your hands.
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I highly doubt it would be an issue. This stuff was brought up and used by the military and discarded...obviously been made in the states and not approved for export. I think that if PHM snags this stuff out of a garbage can, more power to him. If he posted his score of brass he bought stateside and brought it across the border w/o claiming or w/o the correct documentation would be different.
 
EC said:
I highly doubt it would be an issue. This stuff was brought up and used by the military and discarded...obviously been made in the states and not approved for export. I think that if PHM snags this stuff out of a garbage can, more power to him. If he posted his score of brass he bought stateside and brought it across the border w/o claiming or w/o the correct documentation would be different.
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I totally agree. It's all a matter of where one gets it that's all. I've seen guys using Barrett headstamped ammo in Canada and personally I wouldn't touch the stuff.
 
Not too long ago, there were bins of the stuff in the "surplus area" in the basement of a Victoria store. At the time there was no legal issues as there weren't for the cases of full capacity Bren magazines.
 
Glock-a-maniac said:
Aside from that,
I hope you have something more then a Lee 50cal press to resize that brass or you'll be folding it up in the process of resizing. You guys on the west coast have too much time on your hands.
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Sorry, I find this very hard to believe as the Lee set-up is all I've ever needed to re-size and load my 50 cal....not to mention that it is a lot easier on the wallet to set up than the "other" brand.
To each their own...
 
Kevan said:
Sorry, I find this very hard to believe as the Lee set-up is all I've ever needed to re-size and load my 50 cal....not to mention that it is a lot easier on the wallet to set up than the "other" brand.
To each their own...
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I do agree it is cheaper then the RCBS press but when people I've never sold anything to, tell me about how they've folded up their Lee press full length resizing brass they've picked up who knows where, I tend NOT to want to sell that type of press mainly because I think the RCBS press is considerably more structural. This is just my opinion but I don't think Lee built their 50cal press to compete quality wise with RCBS or else they'd price it comparitively. This is a case of 'You get what you pay for.'
 
Glock-a-maniac;2628737 This is a case of 'You get what you pay for.'[/QUOTE said:
I agree with your statement, however if someone folded a Lee cast press then they were doing something that should never have been done with any press regardless of make...for example using a piece of pipe on the handle or something dumb.
I've done some pretty serious re-sizing with mine without a hitch and unless it gives me a problem it can stay on my bench.
Don't misunderstand me I'm not being critical of the other brand as I've got thousands of dollars worth of their tools and dies....no complaints...

I guess it is a case of "you get what you pay for "....well, I can live with it.
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