I acquired about 800 pieces of fired 5.56 brass, all of it LC91 and LC92. It had been fired, deprimed and sized. I ran it through my LE Wilson cartridge case gauge and found that about 1/4 of of the cases have had the shoulder set back too far (the case guage swallows the base of the cartridge while the cartridge mouth sticks out beyond the end of the gauge. The amount varies from "just barely" to maybe one case wall thickness. OAL is good.

Can this brass be salvaged? Resizing won't bring the shoulder back to it's right place, and I can't fire-form it. I bought the brass about a year ago for a VERY reasonable price, even at that time, so I won't feel bad about scrapping 200 pieces. The brass is otherwise in very good shape, I think the previous owner just had his sizing die set too deep for these cases.

Erik in Oregon
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