PMC .223 brass worth reloading?

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A friend gave me several hundred rounds of .223 PMC ammo. I'm assuming it is 55 gr. FMJ and the cases looked to be annealed with red primer sealant and crimped primers. I plan on shooting them but would like to reload the casings. The ammo is headstamped as .223 and not 5.56.

Are the casings worth reloading are do the primer pockets loosen quickly much like the factory Federal and American Eagle stuff? What other brass does PMC brass resemble in terms of longevity?
 
I lose so much 223 brass due to the AR its all worth reloading. When I find it laying at the range in good condition it comes home too.

I have some PMC brass that has been reloaded a couple times. Most my stuff is military headstamp, with some other stuff mixed in! Watch for crimped primers in the mil spec stuff though.

Isnt that PMC stuff made by Remington? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
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PMC was made by PMC, and it's reloadable, I believe it's pretty good brass, keep in mind it probably has crimped primers.

All shell casings are annealed, commercial ammo makers usually polish out the discoloration, the military doesn't care what it looks like, just how it performs, so military ammo still shows the discoloration.

You can take discolored military brass and polish that discoloration right out.
 
It was probably just the batch I had, but I got some military PMC with a batch of Lake City. To a piece every PMC had the flash hole off center. It was not just a little. Some was almost all teh way to the edge of the primer pocket. Since there were only a few dozen mixed in with in the 500++ LC I just pitched them. QC seemed to be an issue with that run of brass.
 


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