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Originally posted by Jim Manion:
I bought about 100 of the Ribgy headstamped last year. They were spent casings and pretty banged up. Had to "undo" the bend on the necks of about 25 of them.

The batch I got had, in my mind, a fairly high reject rate:

-3 had split necks out of the box
-3 were not lathed down to the base (wire rings)
-2 would not go into the resizing die (case thickness)
-1 would not go all the way into the resizing die (large bottom flare)
-5 had evident weakness in the brass on the side of the case (oblong depressions where it was clear that the case thickness had a definite weak point).

Another 5 bit the dust in the resizing die - one corner of the neck collapsed - you can chalk a couple of those up to operator issues.

Let's say 15 total were not suitable for reloading. With some of them, I wonder how in the heck they were ever able to chamber them in a rifle to shoot.

Not a total loss - some are salvagable to make up dummies for bullet seating and case trimming.

I count abouot 38 that I would use for hunting rounds. The rest go to the load development pile.

Just look at the cases very carefully and clean them before you inspect them. More than a few of the issues I found were not evident until after they had been through the tumbler.