Pygmy

A friend just gave me a 30 cal ammo box full of 30-06 brass, mostly Lake City...

I have never worked with military brass..I am aware that I will have to remove the crimp from the primer pockets to reload it..

I will be loading it for my M1 Garand, so max loads are not an issue..

Are there any other issues I need to address..??.. Will my RCBS resizing die work with it, or do I need something like a heavy duty decapping pin to deprime the crimped primers..??..

Big Z

I ran about 500 pieces of primer-crimped LC brass straight from 30 to 25-06 in my RCBS dies with no issues. The part that sucked was removing the crimps on all those

harter66

I did some a while back. LC isn't bad to do ,the TW I did was like I had to extrude (not the word I wanted) the primers to get them out. I used my universal decaper and the pin was just barely long enough to clear the primers ,several needed to be assisted with a punch because some little burr was hung up just enough to keep the case in the holder.

As I said LC is not bad. I used some in 308 headstamped Match and it has rather thick necks ,I would consider that also. Weigh the cases too as my way too picky rifle threw 3 groups and weird flyers from cases varying in weight by about 5gr with extrem examples lite to heavy of 12.

stapher1

Military brass is thicker than commercial brass, so you'll need reduce the charge by a couple of grains or you'll cause a overpressure.

Pygmy

Thanks for the info, guys...

As I stated, it's for my Garand, so I'm loading a relatively mild load, which approximates the load that the rifle was designed for, so I don't expect that thickness will be an issue..

Pygmy

Just as a follow up...

I FL resized 20 of the LC casings...My RCBS die popped out the primers nicely....

I trimmed out the crimp with my case chamfer tool and then primed and loaded the cases...

The primers pressed in a little TIGHT, but I think they are OK...All seated slightly below flush, which should minimize slam fire issues with the M1... I'll run a couple clips through the old girl and see how they perform..

Thanks again to all..