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Once fired 5.56/223 brass - deprimed, swaged, polished.

5.56/223 Brass Deprimed, Swaged, Polished

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Part Number:556-DSP

Quantity:1,000 pieces per box (Qty of 1 = 1,000; Qty of 2 = 2,000; etc)
Status:Ready to ship! No waiting for processing. Fast shipping via USPS Priority Mail.
Caliber:5.56/223
Brand:Predominantly Lake City
Level of Completion:Deprimed, swaged, and polished
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5.56/223 Once Fired Brass (Deprimed, Swaged, Polished) - 1,000 Pieces

This is once fired military brass that's in excellent condition! It consists predominantly of Lake City, but will also contain other government contract brass. This brass has been deprimed, the primer pockets have been swaged, and the cases have been thoroughly polished inside and out. Final processing is all that's left to be performed, such as sizing and trimming to length. Extra brass is included to cover any damaged pieces that we may have missed.

No longer ships in a wood box due to cost and availability.

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"In Stock" indicates the brass has already been processed and is ready to be shipped. In stock brass will be shipped on or before the next business day after the order. All brass is shipped via USPS Priority Mail® and is fully insured. Transit time from origin to destination is typically 2-3 business days.

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Thanks for the great brass, i ordered 1000 rds. of 556 and only had 2 or 3 that i would not load and i am overley picky ! Good job you guys!

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Reviewed by: Rev. Jack from WA. on 1/5/2017

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Bought this brass not knowing what to expect, but upon receipt, I was delighted. This stuff is wunnerful! I couldn't be happier with what I ordered. The wooden box was a nice touch too. Thanks Roberts and Son Brass!--wish you sold pulled bullets as well

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Reviewed by: drcree from Pennsylvania. on 8/31/2020

Exceeded expectations

After inspecting my first lot of 1,000 I have ordered two more lots of 1,000. All cases were 100% polished, just like the website picture. I inspected a sample of 100 cases out of the 1,000 and found that 99 of them all more the same LC 2007 head stamp. This exceeded my expectations regarding what percentage of the cases would bear the same head stamp and obviously far exceeds what you would expect from brass gathered from a civilian shooting range. Plus military cases are thicker if you're interested in duplicating high pressure military load levels. I have always reloaded military 5.56 mm brass because of cost but a significant portion of military brass will show brass extrusion into the ejector hole or the extractor cut on the bolt face, no matter who you get it from. Of the particular batch I inspected, about 72% showed no signs of extrusion into the ejector hole, about 14% showed partial signs (for example one half of the round mark left by the ejector hole showing) and about 14% showed complete signs (for example the whole mark left by the ejector hole could be seen). Even if you recycle this 28% you are still way ahead of the cost of civilian brass so I am still very happy with the cases left over. My last batch of bulk military 5.56 brass bought 20+ years ago had a larger proportion of cases with more severe brass extrusion so I am very happy with the condition of this particular batch from Roberts & Son. I have reloaded cases which show signs of extrusion into the ejector hole. The primers seat more easily than cases that do not show these signs which means that there has been some case head expansion, but not enough to impede chambering. But the primers do still require and force to seat them and don't leak when fired. Personally, I reject cases when they show complete ejector AND extractor cut markings (the extractor cut will appear as a straight line near the edge of the case head). I found that in this case the primers seat too easily for my liking. However, in my sample of 100 I found NO cases showing even partial evidence of extrusion into the bolt face extractor cut so I would rate them as all useable, although the ones with the ejector hole extrusion might not allow as many reloading as the one without (that also depends on what pressure levels YOU load). If you're varmint shooting and can't recover your brass in the grass, that's a good use for these. Why lose brand new civilian brass?

Note added by R&SB: Thank you for the review. We just want to point out that we can not guarantee the percentage of brass with matching head stamps. All brass is military and we do try to keep boxes of brass all out of the same pallet of brass which helps in this regard. Thanks again!

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Reviewed by: Thaddeus F from California. on 7/26/2020

223 Brass For Sale

Roberts and Son Brass offers partially processed once fired 223 brass for sale. Our military 223 brass is dimensionally no different than commercial Remington 223 brass, it just meets the standard for military brass versus the commercial standard and has been fired once by one of the U.S. military branches. One benefit to military brass is that it's much harder on the Rockwell scale than comparable 223 commercial brass. Independent studies have shown military cases such as Lake City 5.56 to be almost twice as hard on the Rockwell scale as compared to 223 Remington cases. The only brass manufacturers of 223 that come close in hardness testing are Lapua and Norma. However, Lapua 223 brass and Norma 223 brass are still not on the same level as the military brass that we process and sell to our customers. The benefit to reloading 223 brass with a harder brass content is that the reloader will see much longer case life than by using inferior brass of a lower hardness.

Because we buy our 223 brass bulk from the military, we can guarantee that it's once fired 223 brass. Range pickup 223 brass technically shouldn't be called once fired brass, as it's unknown in many cases how many times it's been fired.

Fun fact: How many 223 cases per pound? There are approximately 73 223 cases per pound.

5.56 Brass For Sale

We would like to clarify that 223 brass and 5.56 NATO brass are the same dimensionally. What's the difference between 5.56 and 223? The 5.56 brass designation is from the military and the 223 brass designation is a commercial designation. That's not to say that a 5.56 and a 223 chamber in a rifle are the same; the difference in the two is the dimension of the rifle chamber, not the brass dimension. Interestingly enough, most rifles these days, even from the large manufacturers, are chambered for 223 Wylde. The 223 Wylde was developed to retain the tighter match 223 chamber, while still being able to handle the increased pressures from high velocity 5.56 NATO ammunition and cycle reliably.

Roberts and Son Brass offers partially processed once fired 5.56 brass for sale. Our military 5.56 NATO brass is the same dimension as Remington 223 brass. We buy our 5.56 brass bulk from the U.S. military and process it to provide 5.56 brass for reloading, which we then sell as reloading supplies to our customers.

Because we buy our 5.56 brass bulk from the military, we can guarantee that it's once fired 5.56 brass. Range pickup 5.56 brass technically shouldn't be called once fired brass, as it's unknown in many cases how many times it's been fired.

Can you guess how many 5.56 cases per pound? There are approximately 73 5.56 cases per pound.