Anyone experience "dented" carbine brass similar to this?

[browningautorifle]

Yes, some manufacturers have their cases at minimum and others at max. As long as they chamber they don't care. Remember, they don't want you to reload. They want you to buy their ammo. I've never been stingy with the lube. If you start that, you aren't going to get far with 30 Cal and 5.56. It'll be rims off everywhere. I've always lubed every case when doing Carbine and never had problems thst way. I still use water soluable RCBS because I can wash it off in hot water after sizing and it takes part of the crud away too. Then a rattle in a towel and into the tumbler. Since I have to trim after sizing, that gets done before tumbling and then I load on the Dillon 550 to produce some ammo at a decent speed. I always found cases stretched at different rates and headstamp to headstamp is different. Either they will stretch until they are correct or they will crack and either way your problem is over. I always thought Norma brass was softer than most others...