Beware NNY Brass

[ernest2]

Look Out for the NNY on the headstamp and seperate out this brass for special treatment BEFORE RESIZING.

The flash hole of NNY brass is too small for the decapping pin
to fit through and usually results in

A BROKEN DECAPPING PIN......

To deal with this, get a HARDENED nail from the lumber or hardware store as a soft nail just breaks and grind it down
on a bench grinder until the nail fits through the small dia.
flash hole.

Now use you shell holder from you press to hold the NNY case
while you manually deprime it with the above nail and a hammer.

Next, take a electric drill and a drill bit the same size as a normal flash hole and drill out the NNY flash hole to normal size.

Now you can safely reload NNY brass in a normal manor.

Of course , lazy reloaders that have a lot of brass just throw out NNY cases or leave them on the range and that is why you always find NNY cases at the range.

If you are short on brass, there is nothing wrong with drilling NNY cases.

 

[Mike Irwin]

What caliber ammo was this?

The NNY headstamp I'm familiar with is, IIRC, Czech stuff made for Hansen in what used to be Commieland. What appears to be NNY is actually cyrillic lettering, not Latin.

 

[ernest2]

I have nny brass in 380 auto, 9mm and 45 acp
the 9 mm I just throw away because I have lots of 9 mm brass
but I am short on 380 auto and 45 acp so I drill those flash holes.

 

[Selfdfenz]

Yugo manufacture I think.
Sure dried up with the Serbs and Croatas started up.
S-

 

[Mike Irwin]

Self,

YES! Yugoslavian.

The Yugoslavians use the cyrillic alphabet, and the Hungarians use the Latin alphabet.

Brain fade.

And, quite frankly, I don't give a darn about the ammo drying up. I'm still very ticked that the Slivonica and Navip supplies dried up...

What are those, you might ask?

Best darned Slivovitz available...