fastluck13 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 The left looks like Glock and the right looks like Beretta. Yes, Berettas should be illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustybayonet Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I might be way off here, but doesn't jthe military require ammo to be crimped? Is it possible these are milsurp or brass out of the military? I do not know if Winchester supplies rounds for the US, but I cannot think of any other reason for them to be out there. I can still remember getting the crimp out of a couple of thousand surplus 9MM years back. Military requires a date stamp. At least U.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatdoc Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Looks like the Win NATO 124 gr brass I've been finding more of that type of brass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerBaron Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 on the plus side you only have to remove the crimp once..... I do agree usually the mil crimped win I see is marked WCC and has the little nato stamp on it. Mostly here the mil surp brass gets purchased in bulk by commercial reloaders who process (ie swage + roll size) it first then sell it as reloaded ammo. So often when I find the WCC or other nato stamped brass it already has the crimp removed and is ready for many happy reloadings. It would be nice if there was some requirement for companies to mark crimped brass but in reality there's no incentive for them to do it. Also, seeing the crimp mark is just about as easy as looking for the little nato stamp anyway. save them up then sell cheap for scrap, or find someone with a 1050. They might given you 500 processed brass for every 1000 of un-processed you give them. I'd take that deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hceuterpe Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 I've also seen WMA stamped brass that came from NATO Winchester rounds, with 2-digit year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapemeister Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I just purchased a box of Winchester white box 9mm FMJ that are military crimped. They are all marked WMA and 16. I know this a bit off topic since it's factory loaded ammo and with the normal military crimped markings but I thought you would find this interesting, nonetheless. It's been quite a few years since I've purchased Winchester white box, but I don't ever recall seeing the military crimped ammo in the white boxes before. Is this a common practice now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatland Shooter Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Just checked a few boxes I bought last April and they are not crimped. But no telling how long they sat on a shelf before I got them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cecil Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 this is another reason why I de-prime all my brass on a separate press before cleaning brass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Hunter Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 1050 what's the problem.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAF1680 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I got a batch of FC brass mixed in with a blue tint around the primer that were all crimped in August of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeinctown Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Looks like my son just got another opportunity to make a few bucks on the side, running brass on the super swage while he watches his youtube videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9x45 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Sarge, the crimped brass is for Glocks only., Otherwise they will KaBoom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, 9x45 said: Sarge, the crimped brass is for Glocks only., Otherwise they will KaBoom... Figures.. Edited October 20, 2016 by Sarge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxer1 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Agree I don't have the $ for a 1050 so I just keep getting frustrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooke Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 I separate brass by head stamp. Last 3000 I bought had a high percentage of R-P. About 50% of that was crimped. I found no crimped FC or WIN. I had to buy a Dillon swagger to rescue the R-P stuff....PITA!! Sounds like a conspiracy against reloading. I just added a Mark 7 to my 650 so no way I'm going to upgrade to a 1050. It won't take Dillon long to release a separate machine to decap and swage brass if this becomes an issue . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noylj Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 #1050 or no Dillon For a once fired case, the case on the left (from a Glock?) is really battered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowfin Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 (edited) A lot of what you guys are finding is the nontoxic (lead free) primers for LE ammo. As we know, lead poisoning is a concern and it is known that primers are the main culprit rather than the bullets, so to reduce the occupational hazard to PD's they market the lead free primed loads. This is why some of you getting brass from PD ranges are running into it so much. They crimp all of those loads because the nontoxic priming compound is higher pressure so it keeps them from blowing out of the pocket. Federal headstamps theirs NT. I ran into a rash of this when I first started reloading years ago with .40 and found it in half of the brass I was picking up. It drove me absolutely nuts until I looked it up and understood it--like the Glock bulge, it was/is a known issue with .40 because of so many PD's running it. I'll take every bit of it I can get and simply separate it in its own bin until I have enough piled up to make it worthwhile to swage them all. Edited October 29, 2016 by yellowfin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 But my original find was 45 WIN brass. Headstamp exactly the same as non crimped stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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