FAULTY REMINGTON .223 CASES

[John E]

I bought 500 Remington unprimed .223 cases, and passed 200 of them on to Peter Marum to load for a come and try day that will be run at the Grantville range.
After loading quite a few of these, Peter discovered that they have a "slight" flaw ------- the flash holes are way off centre. Some of them are almost at the edge of the primer pocket. This could possibly cause safety problems for anyone using them, by way of hangfires, etc.
The batch number of these cases is 61404 / G58190052.
I contacted the agent for Remington to suggest that they should recall this batch, and the response was "take them back to the retailer and they will handle it".
At least this has been a wake-up call for me --- I will check my cases, no matter what the brand, in future before doing anything else with them.
John

[pjifl]

I also have learned by bitter experience that reputation, price, and past experience of quality is not a good guide of case quality. In my case I just expected that a good run of quality cases would continue did not believe people with horror stories and got complacent. In future also I will examine every case immediately on delivery and not put them on the shelf for use when needed.

They were not Remington - yet I have seen Remington cases of exceptional quality. There never seems a hard and fast rule.

Peter Smith.

[John E]

Found another number on the packet of faulty Remington unprimed cases ---- 22408 BB.
Look out for that also.
John

[Ken L]

On one occasion I found that in a box of 100 Lapua 223 cases that one was a double flash hole Boxer primer case. I was lucky to spot it as it would have made a mess of the depriming pin.
I always neck size new cases before loading them to iron out any stray dents in the neck from transport and gives a more consistant neck tension from the start.