bad rem brass

[flitz]

just bought a bag of new rem brass.10 were beyond saving.thats 10%.does this seem
high to what remmington calls stringent manufacturing.with tax the bag was20.00.
think i will give them a call cant hurt.or i am going back to sportsmans.already have the
other 90 trimmed and deburred.

flitz

[stimpylu32]

filtz

Give them a call in the morning , the worst they can say is to bad , and the best is that they will send a free bag . its worth a call .

stimpy

[bigjeepman]

I only use Winchester brass for my rifles but I have been seeing a decline in the number of good cases coming out of each bag in the past two years. This is very unfortunate for all of us. I feel a 10% fail rate is ridiculous. 

[beemanbeme]

What is wrong with the brass that it is unusable?? 

[dw06]

10% loss is too high!What is wrong with it?The most I've ever lost out of 100 is 2,the neck on one was aplit,and the primer flash hole was way off center on another.

[teddy12b]

Probably wasn't the manufacturer in my opinion.  It's not like those bags are carefully placed on the seat of a lexus and driven to whereever you bought them at.  They get tossed around just like anything else.  10% is a lot and sure it stinks, but sometimes "it" happens. 

[flitz]

the necks are badly messed up.big kinks

flitz

[beemanbeme]

That's a result of packaging and transit.  Take a metal dowel or a phillips head screw driver and "iron" the necks out to as close to round as you can.  Run your resizing die thru the neck, then load 'em and shoot 'em.  They'll smooth right out.

[Gun Runner]

Tks guys.  I just picked up 300 (rem) 44 spl cases at sportsmans w/house couple weeks ago when I was over at Reno.
Had to go get them out and size them (do all new brass). No probs. with any of the cases.

Gun Runner

[coyotejoe]

I'd have to say the only "bad brass" I've encountered over my 40+ years of reloading were Remington, but not a lot of them. I had three boxes of Remington factory loaded 6.5x55 which developed neck splits, some on the first firing. Not the usual sort of split, from the mouth back, but a short crack opened up not extending all the way to the mouth nor to the shoulder, just a crack about 1/8" long. All three boxes were purchased at the same time.
  More recently I bought 100 Remington cases for my newly acquired .35 Remington. On the first firing with a mild load, one case developed a very fine, raggedly shaped crack about 3/4" long midway of the body. No harm was done and there actually were 101 cases in the bag so I guess I got my money's worth but I've never seen a crack like that in the body of any cartridge case.

[Badnews Bob]

I'd resize them and shoot them bent necks don't usally cause any problems when resized.

[flitz]

i am just going to chuck them.have more brass on the way.just wanted to
see if anyone else was having the same problem.to loose 2.00 over the fun
of reloading no big deal. things happen.

flitz

[PaulS]

the neck and body splits are called "J" splits. They are typically caused by firing fire-hardened brass in a large chamber after full length sizing them multiple times. I haven't seen a "J" split since I stopped full length sizing my cartridges. I now only neck size and I only size the neck about a caliber deep - a bit less on the 308 and 358. I do keep the necks annealed.