Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by Stocky

Except the brass almost has to be treated like steel and thrown away. Ive seen more case head separations even in factory loads (the stuff the loaded for hunting and fishing was terrible) than i have all other case head seperations by like 5x. We reloaded some for me brothers bolt gun and had 3 of 7 with visible cracking and the 7th was a separation which prompted the closer inspection on the first cases.

Strange that. I’ve reloaded shit loads of Belmont brass for my 223 without issue. Just did some the other night for a range shoot,40 rounds for a 3x12 @300 yard comp, cases are on their sixth reload cycle with 73 gr ELDM’s. Not sure but headstamp is either ODL 17 or ADI 17. Got some FC brass that I’m pretty sure came via Belmont about 10 years ago, some of which has been reloaded at least 6 times.
I used about 2000 rounds of the H&F packaged ammo on goats at one stage, only had a handful of dud rounds from memory, no worse than any other brand. Heard the rumours about that ammo, didn’t experience it myself. Still got a box of fifty rounds, might have to give them a whirl on goats tomorrow aye.