Geco brass

[Abenaki]

Geco brass. Is it good? Bad?
What do you all think?


Take care
Abenaki

[stilly]

Is this that .223 cheap crap with the tiny flash hole?

[mjmagee67]

I've loaded it for 9mm, the flash hole is small, my Dillon resizer deprimer will punch it through. The one thing I noticed right away is that the AOL comes out real short causing me to have to readjust the seating die. It's for that reason I don't use them. I reload in bulk and hate having to adjust things. But the one I reloaded shout fine, but now I toss them.

[stilly]

I've loaded it for 9mm, the flash hole is small, my Dillon resizer deprimer will punch it through. The one thing I noticed right away is that the AOL comes out real short causing me to have to readjust the seating die. It's for that reason I don't use them. I reload in bulk and hate having to adjust things. But the one I reloaded shout fine, but now I toss them.

There is your problem right there...

[followingc]

I've been loading their 223 brass with no issues whatsoever. The primer isn't crimped but rather pressed in 3 places. It doesn't impede inserting the new primer though I usually lightly hit it with my reamer anyway during brass prep. I never noticed but the primer hole is slightly smaller than my other brass.

BTW, my rifle likes the Geco factory stuff better than most OTS 55g ammo. They're a German company (now owned by the Swiss) that's been around since 1887. Brass has held up as good as any other so far (I'm on my 3rd firing with most of it).

[AandO]

I despise "STAKED PRIMERS" and destroy upon finding.

A pet peeve that pisses me off almost as much as SPP in 45 ACP.

[followingc]

...SPP in 45 ACP.

Don't even go there!!! Auggghhh....

"Staked" - thanks for the correct term!

[bfoosh006]

What caliber ?
The .223 is Swiss made and IMHO GTG.... as well as quite accurate ammo. As a matter of fact Black Hills used GECO 55gr FMJ .223 to help during the previous ammo drought and packaged it in their factory boxes.
Some of the 9mm is Hungarian or Swiss.... not fond of the Hungarian MFS factory stuff.

[stilly]

I've been loading their 223 brass with no issues whatsoever. The primer isn't crimped but rather pressed in 3 places. It doesn't impede inserting the new primer though I usually lightly hit it with my reamer anyway during brass prep. I never noticed but the primer hole is slightly smaller than my other brass.

BTW, my rifle likes the Geco factory stuff better than most OTS 55g ammo. They're a German company (now owned by the Swiss) that's been around since 1887. Brass has held up as good as any other so far (I'm on my 3rd firing with most of it).

I might be getting it mixed up with that yugo crap that folks started buying that had a tiny flash hole and you could not decap it with a typical decapper, so you needed to make the flash hole bigger. But UGG, doing that to 3000 cases by hand would bug the hell outta me.

Staked is just another way of crimping, in fact, I thought there were about 5+ different ways to crimp ammo. Here is an image.

[BillyGoatCrawler]

I despise "STAKED PRIMERS" and destroy upon finding.

A pet peeve that pisses me off almost as much as SPP in 45 ACP.

What is with that? Federal .45 ACP with SPP always seems to find its way into my supply. It's like weeding a garden. No matter what, they just seem to keep popping up.

[CSACANNONEER]

I despise "STAKED PRIMERS" and destroy upon finding.

Funny, I prefer stake crimped primer pockets.

[mycrstuff]

Staked are much easier to reload than the ring crimped primers. Think 30.06 HXP staked vs LC crimps. You don't need to swage a staked primer.