China CJ brass headstamp

[ronas]

Is China CJ brass in 223 any good for reloading?

[Para45]

I'm pretty sure that's Norinco brass and yeah I've heard it's pretty good, but no personal experience reloading it.

[ar15barrels]

I have had problems with primers falling out of CJ (Norinco) cases.
If your batch holds primers well, they should be good to go.

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CJ China North Industries Corp., (NORINCO), 7A Yue Tan Nan Jie, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

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[bohoki]

works fine for me but i think ive only loaded 4 cases

[ronas]

I have had problems with primers falling out of CJ (Norinco) cases.
If your batch holds primers well, they should be good to go.

The CJ batch is once fired I picked up at the range years ago. Tomorrow I'm going to the range to shoot the AR. I'll go ahead and load 5 or so rounds with CJ brass and see what they do.

[SCMA-1]

Shot a ton of that stuff; back in the days, Norinco 223 was ~$150 for 1600rd cases. I never bothered to pick up my cases because it wasn't worth the effort to reload them because the ammo was so cheap. Mildly corrosive also.

SCMA-1

[Para45]

haha no joke, those were the days!!

[Sheldon]

I have also experienced loose primers in them cases. Their 9mm cases are also soft and I have had the primers fall out of them too.