I found out AFTER this stuff showed up on my bench, A-MERC brass is trash. It is all over the various forums, but I could not find it on Bayou Shooter so I am sharing it with the loaders here.
I do NOT sort my pistol brass and will pick up anything I find and have enough 45 brass to fill at least one 5 gallon bucket. I was on my Dillon 550 yesterday when I felt excess pressure on the down stroke. Brass was not wanting to let go of the flare / expander die. Hmmppp... looked at the case and it seemed ok, so I loaded the bullet. OBVIOUS issue on the over all diameter. The next two pieces of brass did not want to let go of the flaring die either. I dug through the bin of empty brass hanging on the Dillon and found about 50 pieces of A-MERC.
The thickness of this brass is almost 2x what it should be. I measured various head stamps and most of the brass fell close to .012 inches. The A-MERC all measured closer to or in excess of .02 inches. In addition to the wall thickness issue, the flash holes were not consistently centered.
I hate to discard brass, but this stuff will get the pliers then will be tossed in the recycle bucket.
I do NOT sort my pistol brass and will pick up anything I find and have enough 45 brass to fill at least one 5 gallon bucket. I was on my Dillon 550 yesterday when I felt excess pressure on the down stroke. Brass was not wanting to let go of the flare / expander die. Hmmppp... looked at the case and it seemed ok, so I loaded the bullet. OBVIOUS issue on the over all diameter. The next two pieces of brass did not want to let go of the flaring die either. I dug through the bin of empty brass hanging on the Dillon and found about 50 pieces of A-MERC.
The thickness of this brass is almost 2x what it should be. I measured various head stamps and most of the brass fell close to .012 inches. The A-MERC all measured closer to or in excess of .02 inches. In addition to the wall thickness issue, the flash holes were not consistently centered.
I hate to discard brass, but this stuff will get the pliers then will be tossed in the recycle bucket.