Well I have about 3k mixed cases I don’t know what I’m going to do with . I don’t have a problem with mixed brass as long as it’s either all commercial or all NATO . However when NATO is mixed in with the commercial stuff . I really don’t even want to bother with it because you need to separate the crimp primer cases from the rest .
It's just not worth the time needed to look at every headstamp to determine which pile it goes in when you have thousands of them . Last time I had a large batch of uber mixed cases I just treated them all as if they had primer crimps and ran them all though the decrimping process . I use that lot of brass as my cheap steel plinking ammo because all I need to shoot with those is about 6moa . I can do that with the worst loaded ammo
I want to apologize to Rebs once again . It bothers me more then I think it should that my range no longer makes the effort to separate the brass . The reason is because they don't actually need to separate it . They just need to keep the military cases separate from the members cases .
That sounds like separating it but IMO it's not . We rent/lease 3 of are 6 ranges just about every day of the week to the Navy , Coastguard and some LEO . When the military is up there shooting the range starts out clean with NO brass on the ground . They then shoot for hours up there ( full auto sometimes ) so there is at least a few thousand NATO only cases on the ground when they leave . Are brass guys is supposed to pick it up after they leave . ALL HE HAS TO DO IS NOT MIX IT IN WITH ALL THE OTHER BRASS ON SITE .
Ta-da separated NATO brass with no real effort .
That must have been what the old guy did because I was buying hundreds/thousands of LC same year brass every time I needed it . It was always available but not anymore .
Either that or this new guy is selectively collecting and selling to a special few .