Free primers!

[tabascoz28]

I don't have a primer loader, just drop them on the table and pick them one by one. Whether you drop them in that hopper, shake and make each one the right side down, you're spending the same amount of time. I have had 2 detonations in 20 years putting small rifle into 556 and it's cause I didn't de-crimp, now I have prep tools.

Large pistol primer would not fit in a 556 pocket.

Tips, bullets, clips, mags... whatever

[sigstroker]

Wonder if they put any powder in those. Mine are compressed loads, the bullet could never get shoved in that far.

[tabascoz28]

Yes they had powder. It was ball stuff, i shook them out so they wouldn't get all over my car.

[Snoopy47]

Pistol primers in a rifle round would be looking for trouble.....

That was my point. These were obviously loaded by a novice (a new one at that), and without known packaging of the components the only thing I would recycle from those are the bullets themselves because weight and jacket quality can be validated at inspection.

The brass could probably otherwise be saved, but why bother.

So we are talking about $1 worth of primers here. Is it really worth $1 to load an unknown component?

That brass doesn't look like it was process even remotely correctly. So everything else about their assembly is suspect. Who's not to say a fast pistol powder wasn't used (very bad by the way).

[tabascoz28]

If only they could microstamp identifying marks on them...

[Beelzy]

Yeah, I've found 223s like that as well. Somebody went full tilt with the crimp die.

[IVC]

So we are talking about $1 worth of primers here. Is it really worth $1 to load an unknown component?

Completely agree. The only components I reuse are my own...

[divingin]

Why do you call bullets "tips"?

Better than "heads"...

[ar15barrels]

and tips for blasting. All these new reloaders, hopefully one of these didn't blow the their gun. The powder came out at the range with a little shake.

When I pulled the bullets it felt strong. So in conjunction with crimping above the canalure and slamming the round and missing the chamber, it pushed the bullets in.

The bullets usually get pushed in like that when people have a failure to extract and don't realize it.
They lock the bolt back, pull the mag out and press the top round back into the mag, re-insert the mag and hit the bolt release.
This sends the top round into the back of the spent case that's still in the chamber and deep-seats the bullet.
Thank goodness, they realized the bullets were deep seated and left them on the ground because they cause even more trouble if they tried to shoot them when the bullets are loose in the case with the powder.

[tabascoz28]

Yep, get a firm crimp on those 223s for your semis.