Cheap PPU ammo

[Intercooler]

   If and probably when I get another box of PPU ammo, The Shadow will get some of the spent brass to see how it does with a reload as-is. Maybe they have made changes since then, but best just to use the ammo and hold the brass off to the side as recycle instead of reloading them.

[Taterhead]

The amortized cost per round of a brass case is too small to risk having issues. I lean on the time-honored bit of reloading wisdom: "If there is ANY doubt, there is no doubt." If I hesitate to load and shoot it, I don't.

[The_Shadow]

Also LAX was reusing some PPU brass that IC happened to get in his batch, that brass would not hold it's resized shape.
There were a few that the bullets pushed inside the casing after they were loaded.
You can read about the entire documentation here;http://10mm-firearms.com/factory-10mm-ammo-pull-downs/lax-180gr-fmj-plated-(ic-51714)-pull-down/

After running them back into the RCBS sizer die here is what they measured...


Here is what it measured after I annealed the casing and resized it once again...

[Pablo]

The Shadow really does know. Interesting to say the least. You softened up the brass and it held form. As I predicted earlier.

Why do I think if I actually ask what the brass alloy composition is, the Shadow will know? I kid, I kid. 

Good stuff.

[4949shooter]

The Shadow knows!