This can is 500 pieces of processed 5.56 military brass. Headstamps are
mostly Lake City ('08 to '11) with a small amount of WCC headstamps
mixed in.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This item may not be exported or transported outside of the United
States or its territories without an End Use Certificate from the United
States Government.
Loading .223 is often time-consuming and tedious. You need to deprime
and resize the brass. Then you need to trim the brass. Then you need to
swage the primer pockets. Skipping one of those steps will wind up
messing up your loaded ammo.
We fixed that for you. We have trimmed and sized the brass, and swaged the primer pockets for you.
We started by polishing the brass for 4 hours in corn-cob media and
Rooster Lab's Rooster-Brite polish. We then lubed the cases with an
aerosol lube to prepare them for processing on our Dillon 1050 press.
On the press, the first station is a Dillon Carbide .223 Sizing Die.
This station gives a rough sizing, deprimes the case, and expands the
mouth just enough to aid in placing your bullet.
The next station swages the primer pocket, reshaping the primer
pocket to circular. Because swaging reshapes the metal instead of
removing the metal as seen in a reamer, this extends the lifespan of the
your brass.
We trimmed the brass using Dillon's RT1200 trimmer on the Dillon
1050. Each piece is trimmed to 1.750" (+/- 0.005"), the trim-to-length
prescribed by the Lyman 49th Edition Reloading Manual. Since the RT1200
also sizes the brass, this station also resets the shoulder back to
SAAMI specifications.
Every day, we check the first 10 rounds to come off the press both
with a Dillon Precision Case Gage, and electronic calipers to ensure our
process is returning the brass to the SAMMI specifications. If any
piece is not to those specifications, we recheck every step of the
process, and recheck our next 10 rounds, until we get everything right.
We also spot-check every 500 rounds to ensure nothing has changed
during our processing. If any piece does not meet our criteria, we
reject that complete batch, readjust and restart our process, checking
the first 10 pieces to come off the press.
When the brass has been completed, we re-tumble it in walnut media
and a small amount of Rooster Lab's Rooster Brite. This removes any
remaining lube on the brass, and gives you a bright shiny piece of
brass, ready to load.