I accumlated (probably range pickup with my brass) about 100 cases marked 'FC 88'. I couldn't get the primers in and if I did, they were flattened because the pocket seemed too shallow. I thought they looked like they had bit of a crimp so I put a drill in my press and beveled the edges of the primer pocket. "NOW I've got it.", I thought. No, I didn't have it. I looked them up. There are three different brands.
FC Departmento de la Industrial Militar, Mexico City, Mexico 1
FC Federal Cartridge Corp., Anoka, MN 55303 (also produced in Germany and Austria for Federal) 1
FC Prvi Partizan, Titovo, Uzice 31000, Yugoslavia 1
Is anybody familiar with this stuff?
Needless to say, I threw them all in the recycle, which is where any future finds will go, too.
I got my reloading done for this week, but it seem like I was flummoxed by something every step of the way.
One thing I did accomplish was finally getting 9mm to plunk easily and reliably. The magic combination was eluding me for years.
