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Sellier & Bellot brass?
Greetings, all:
A buddy recently gave me 100 pieces of once-fired Sellier & Bellot .38 special brass. Is this stuff suitable for reloading? It appears to be Boxer primed, but I seem to remember reading negative reviews of it somewhere.
A little help, please?
Thanks, and Semper Fi.
Ron H.
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09-08-2012, 02:07 PM
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S&B is quality brass. The primer pockets may be a bit tight on the first reload otherwise ue it as any other brass.
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09-08-2012, 02:14 PM
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I know this was started about 38 brass but for those using S&B 9mm check the military headstamped brass with a magnet, much of this is brass plated steel cases. May not matter to some but to others it will.
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Right on--thanks, guys.
Semper Fi,
Ron H.
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09-08-2012, 05:00 PM
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I have reloaded some 357 mag S&B brass twice & it seems okey so far.
Might I also say the factory loadings were good too....
I will buy more if I come accoss it, as brass sometimes is hard to find!
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I found that Wolf primers are a real tight fit in S&B 38's. However Winchester primers fit in them with no problem.
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I've reloaded my S&B 9mm three times so far. I've never had trouble with the primer pockets. I use the CCI 500 primers. The brass has held up really well! I have some 40 S&W S&B brass I'll be reloading next.
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09-09-2012, 09:42 AM
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I've reloaded their .357mag brass many times. Only issue is that they have at least two head stamps - a thin wall and a thick wall. The thin wall are prone to split after 6 or 7 times through the press. Thick wall (or normal wall) are like energizer batteries - they keep going and going.
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No!! Don't use them. Very dangerous. I feel that it only proper for me to offer to dispose of them for you.... at no charge!
Send them to me and I will make sure they are properly disposed of.
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09-09-2012, 05:38 PM
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Haven't seen that brass plated steel. Any pics?
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Haven't seen that brass plated steel. Any pics?
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I used to rake up brass and just sweep it into a dust pan and then pour it all into a bucket. My first sort was to use a large magnet to pull all the steel case stuff out. I noticed all the regular lacquer coated junk and some copper plated (usually the 7.62R stuff) and yes some of it was brass plated 9mm. I never bothered to look at the head stamp but they did have that bright red primer sealer on them.
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Someone left a box of S&B 44 mag brass at the range which I gladly took home. The primer pockets would not seat my CCI 300 primers. I used my case chamfering tool to ream out the primer pockets but the primers were still a tight fit.
I ended up running them through my RCBS swaging die. Now they take primers just fine.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BHarada
Someone left a box of S&B 44 mag brass at the range which I gladly took home. The primer pockets would not seat my CCI 300 primers. I used my case chamfering tool to ream out the primer pockets but the primers were still a tight fit.
I ended up running them through my RCBS swaging die. Now they take primers just fine.
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I ran into some Magtech brass that had crimped in primers. Yours may be the same thing?
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