Oh Yeah! 45acp LRP brass
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Yeah, already in the scrap bucket. Really wish that I’d noticed it before I’d deprimed them all, would have measured the spent primers.I would start the process by throwing it in the garbage can
I've reloaded hundreds of these with no problems.
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Guys, pic above is with new primers seated, they sit super low. Might be fine, or firing pin might not reach them. If it was some unobtanium caliber I’d make it work, but 45acp brass is too cheap to bother with stuff that’s this far out of spec.
Ppu 10mm brass caused me many problems, and made me believe I was messing up when I was learning to load.... bad neck tension, unable to get it to crimp, the works....
So I stay away from ppu 10mm.
Now, they make 7.62x25mm brass.... that stuff is fine.
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Those primers do appear rather low. They might be fine in a 1911 but not in some other handguns. Keep them in the recycle bin.
I wonder if someone reamed the primer pockets out with a reamer meant for large rifle primer pockets?
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They still have the original red sealant, so I doubt that much has been done to them, but anything is possible.
Glad to know I am not the only one. I got a batch of 1000 rounds of factory PPU 10mm when I bought a gun, and I found the same problem. The wall thickness was less than any other 10mm brass. I bought a Lee undersized sizing die, and that helped, but I think I will scrap them when I am done.
PPU rifle brass is great stuff and the PPU 357 brass has also been very good. Strange that the .45 brass is out of standard spec. Maybe it was made for a specific military contract that called for a non-standard primer thus the deep primer pocket?