While at home observing my "shelter in place" I've been trying to kill time catching up at my reloading bench. Like most avid reloaders, I pick-up any good looking case discarded at the range. To that end, I have a accumulated a couple gallons of .223 brass which I am now finally getting around to decapping, pocket swaging, cleaning & sorting. After all those thousands of handle pulls, I remember a few problem cases that I backed off & wiggled the case in the shell holder, etc. to get them decapped. In the sorting process I discovered 15 cases labeled "PERFECTA - .223 REM." Never heard of them but their name is obviously misleading. Out of 15, maybe 2 had a centered flash hole!
I'm thankful I was using a MEC Marksman with floating shell holder & a heavy-duty Mighty Armory decapping die. If I was FL sizing instead, a busted decapping pin or bent sizing stem would have been very probable! Just FYI....
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