Bonus find at the range today.

[enfield303t]

Went to the local range today with my son and walked by the brass disposal can and BINGO deep in .556 brass. Just over 1200 once fired IVI and great for reloading. Guess the military were at the range recently!

My son has a SP1 and just bought a Colt Commando so will use the brass for only those two guns. The DPMS and Norc. will suffer with Federal and Norc brass reloads.

It was a great day!

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[browningautorifle]

Good deal. I originally procured a sandbag of brass to reload for my AR and then sold the whole affair...then had to build it all up again. IVI is a good start.

[enfield303t]

Good deal. I originally procured a sandbag of brass to reload for my AR and then sold the whole affair...then had to build it all up again. IVI is a good start.

Hard to find IVI without paying too much for it so yes a good start. Have thousands of Federal and Norc brass and am now throwing away the Norc after 3 reloads. I have no idea what they were using for guns as none have the usual dent in the case but a strange mark on the base rim?? Have never seen that before, usually the small dent when using in a AR.

[browningautorifle]

Norc brass is of questionable specs so I never use it at all. The rims aren't all the same and if you get the ammo the loads are variable too. The distorted rims would be from the high opening velocity and the rim being yanked by the extractor, maybe the brass is a bit soft. Anyway, no matter it goes to salvage. I'll keep only commercial and good standard brass.

[enfield303t]

Norc brass is of questionable specs so I never use it at all. The rims aren't all the same and if you get the ammo the loads are variable too. The distorted rims would be from the high opening velocity and the rim being yanked by the extractor, maybe the brass is a bit soft. Anyway, no matter it goes to salvage. I'll keep only commercial and good standard brass.

Jim, have had decent luck with the Norc brass and the variance in case weight sure shows the lack of consistency in production. We are currently shooting Norc brass reloaded three times and now throwing it away as we are getting case separation on some. Considering how inexpensive it was am more than happy with the durability. Will head to the LGS tomorrow hoping to find some good 72 or 75 grain .224 bullets for the Colt Commando my son has coming. Interesting thing about the new gun it apparently is the first M4 marked 11 inch barreled ever brought into Canada so had to get a new FRT from the rcmp. It was originally imported under the wrong FRT as a Commando is FA and of course and a no no here. If you want will post some pictures on a new thread when it arrives.

As mentioned will use the IVI for the SP1 and the Commando, both deserve good quality brass.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Went to the local range today with my son and walked by the brass disposal can and BINGO deep in .556 brass. Just over 1200 once fired IVI and great for reloading.

.556 would imply an INCH measurement. Do you mean 5.56mm?

[enfield303t]

.556 would imply an INCH measurement. Do you mean 5.56mm?

Yes. My bad!

[Sentryduty]

Being the headstamp is IVI it is certainly 5.56mm (x45 NATO) he means, there are not a lot of calibres with IVI on the head in production any longer...

[Lee Enfield]

Went to the local range today with my son and walked by the brass disposal can and BINGO deep in .556 brass. Just over 1200 once fired IVI and great for reloading. Guess the military were at the range recently!

My son has a SP1 and just bought a Colt Commando so will use the brass for only those two guns. The DPMS and Norc. will suffer with Federal and Norc brass reloads.

It was a great day!

More likely that you followed the local RCMP onto the range...they are (slowly?) being issued C8 carbines and 77gr IVI 5.56mm (Mk 262 Mod 1 equivalent) ammunition.

[browningautorifle]

More likely that you followed the local RCMP onto the range.

That makes more sense than anything else. The military doesn't allow the troops to shoot on Civ ranges. On occasion though, you do find the troops shooting by themselves on a range on off time and the just happen to be consuming Govt issue... Been there, done that...Darren?