Hello,
I want to learn about Lake City military brass, 223 Rem. (Ok, Ok, 5.56 NATO )

I have heard that there are some variations of this. I have heard that there are match rounds with no crimp. Is this true? Also I have heard there are some that use the large primer, and were marked LC 85 or some such number. Can anybody verify this?

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Joe M

Joe,

I may be wrong on this one but, I was always under the impression that if the casehead was stamped witha cross insdie of a circle it had a crimped primer.

Hope that can be of help

Military MATCH ammo/brass is generally NOT crimped. The circle with a cross is a NATO headstamp and has no bearing on primer crimp or not.

JoeM __

The LC 85 cases I use have the normal small rifle primer.

Good shooting.

Robert

Hi JoeM: In my opinion .223 LC brass is one of the best cases I have. I use them to get 222 Rem and .30 Mauser, and now I have cases that have been reloaded 10 times, and they still look good. All are primed crimped, but I get rid of that crimp with a RCBS tool. I have no splits, no broken cases.... no susprises with this brass. Nice stuff.
Greetings.