First off I’m not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this post but I couldn’t really find one that was applicable. So mods if this is the wrong forum please accept my apologies and feel free to move it to the correct one.
Now for the question! Just got through decapping about 4000 pieces of range brass. As I was depriming I ran into a case that the flash hole is so small that I actually broke the depriming pin! I thought it was a freak but I subsequently found about a dozen other cases that had the same issue! Fortunately after the first one I was smart enough not to break any more pins. All the brass with the problem is marked Norma 9 mm Luger! Now I know I’ve deprimed other pieces of Norma brass without any issues but thinking back I’m not sure I’ve ever ran across 9 mm Norma brass before. Has anybody else ran into this problem? Looking in the brass at the flash hole it appears to be about half the size of a normal piece of 9 mm brass. It’s definitely brass not steel cased or aluminum. And it is not Berdan primed, only one flash hole! Not really a problem as I said it was only about a dozen cases but I was just wondering what’s up with brass and if anyone else has ran into it.