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RickT

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I encountered my first FM headstamp when sweeping a magnet over a bunch of cases to make sure no steel had snuck in.  Found a "brass" FM case: magnetic and cracked to boot.  Since then I've found a few more, one "magnetic" and one that didn't feed correctly into the 1050 shellplate.  I understand this is Freedom Munitions "brass", but what gives with the iron content?  Anone else encountered these?

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American Steel. Stepped brass wasn't enough of an abomination. Now they're brass plating steel cases. Out in the elements, the steel will rust through the plating pretty quickly.

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They've also changed the headstamp. You'll find Xtreme stamped headbrass that's ok, but the American Steel stuff coming out these days it stamped "Xtreme ST" You "can" reload it, but I don't bother.

 

I generally cull anything labeled "FM" "Ammoload" or "IMT" as that's almost always ledged brass which may or may not give you fits on the swage station.

 

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21 hours ago, njl said:

American Steel. Stepped brass wasn't enough of an abomination. Now they're brass plating steel cases. Out in the elements, the steel will rust through the plating pretty quickly.

S&B had copper washed(I think) steel cases for quite awhile But I believe they stopped making it. I have been running magnets through range brass since 2010.

 

Freedom munitions has also stopped making stepped cases from what I understand.

 

i load them to minor PF for my PCC and so far no issues.

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On 3/24/2017 at 10:35 AM, GregJ said:

 

Another vote for this.  Great insurance, and cheap too. 

I had a couple of neodymium magnets stuck to the safe door and just added them to my casefeeder after seeing this post.  I couldn't find any steel cases to test this but it snagged a steel pin that I dropped down the tube with no problems.  Good idea.

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7 hours ago, jhgtyre said:

I had a couple of neodymium magnets stuck to the safe door and just added them to my casefeeder after seeing this post.  I couldn't find any steel cases to test this but it snagged a steel pin that I dropped down the tube with no problems.  Good idea.

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+1

 

I use magnets recovered from old hard drives in the same spot on my 550 and 1050's.

 

It stops the steel cases in their tracks.

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