All new brass should be ran through a mandrel. Its the only way to ensure proper neck tension and has the side effect of fixing the case mouths before loading/Trimming/Chamfering.
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Is this really what to expect from Lapua brass?
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Just shoot the Lapua and forget about it, or send them down the road to someone else who will love them and rejoice that they bought perfectly good brass at a discounted price because of a few dents and dings. They will then size them all and have them looking like new in a half an hour..
I pretty sure if you contact Lapua you will get the same advice you are getting here. Round them out with an expander ball or mandrel.
I am with you OP , that is bullshit . I have bought many thousands of Lapua brass over the years and have never seen necks damaged that bad . That surely happened Before they were put in the box . Sure, they will be fine but that is not the point . The point is they were shipped from the factory as damaged goods, they were round all through the process until something dented/damaged them .
Wrong. I take it you don't shoot Lapua brass ?
I like my lapua brass , I like my peterson brass , I like my alpha brass and most of all I love me 1/2 the cost of the others hornady brass , I even love the free brass I get from my local ranges once fired free brass not much is better than free . May they all last forever .
Go back to your, "I should be able to smoke weed at the range," thread. And let people who actually reload and shoot take care of this.
A neck has to be pretty deformed to be unrecoverable. Like someone stepping on it or smashing the side with a die.
I have taken some pretty gnarly brass that i swore was dead, run through sizing die, mandrel and hit with the henderson and shit comes out like new.
Brass is very malleable. If you can bend it back to shape, you are fine.
I have taken some pretty gnarly brass that i swore was dead, run through sizing die, mandrel and hit with the henderson and shit comes out like new.
Brass is very malleable. If you can bend it back to shape, you are fine.
You must be a blast at the produce section of the grocery store.
No you don't understand! Those necks are fucking dented! Unrecoverable travesty.
My heart is aching for the OP. He may never recover financially.
Lapua used to include a foam topper in the box but when it sat on the shelf for awhile the brass pressed against it would tarnish a little blue where it was contacting and people made tons of threads about it wondering and bitching instead of just tumbling the brass for a cosmetic issue.
So they removed the foam. Now you get threads about people complaining on boxes with necks denting.
So they removed the foam. Now you get threads about people complaining on boxes with necks denting.
Wait until you open a box of Nosler premium brass that was sized, chamfered and de-burred and “ready to load” and because of their new lose packaging have 15-20% dinged necks. When 10 years ago they were packaged standing up in a box with individual compartments and you could load from the box. And oh they are 10-15% more expensive than Lapua and don’t last as long. Size them and use them
Grief, they must have over-annealed it??? (sarc)
Glad I've not seen any crap like that from them
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You must be thinking of his melting timepiece. Ever get a chance, visit the Dali Museum near Sarasota.
Holy crap, no that's not typical. All Lapua Brass I have ordered has been outstanding except for some 6.5 Creedmoor small Primer that the pockets were so tight they were a bitch to load. I would call them up .
Ive ordered a lot of lapua brass in the last two years and never seen a box like that usually 1-3 out of round. Sucks but nothing that cant be fixed. Send them a pic and see what they say. Im sure they will have a good laugh. Ace ventura must have been handling that box
Those necks are unacceptable; the vendor should make good on them. I use Lapua brass mainly and the only thing I've noticed about the brass in 6.5 Grendel is that the cases are too short, usually between .004" and .005" below SAMMI minimum. It's a big stretch on the first firing, but correctable after that.
Maybe the larger cases get beat up in shipping because of the weight of the individual cases.
I have 600 new Lapua 6BR cases that all appear perfect right out of the box.
What's a 300 NM case weigh, about 3 times that of a 6BR case?
The Lapua brass I've used in the past is beyond reproach.
I have 600 new Lapua 6BR cases that all appear perfect right out of the box.
What's a 300 NM case weigh, about 3 times that of a 6BR case?
The Lapua brass I've used in the past is beyond reproach.
Guys...
It's 100% the result of the shipping trips THAT box of cases took from Finnland to the OP. Someone else could buy the same lot of cases and have 1 less gorilla in the shipping line and have zero problems.
It's 100% the result of the shipping trips THAT box of cases took from Finnland to the OP. Someone else could buy the same lot of cases and have 1 less gorilla in the shipping line and have zero problems.
Too late for your deeply logical post, Lapua is dead to OP. Round necks or nothing!
I remember all too well my fist box of Lapua 308 looked as bad or worse then the OP's.
Like others have said not a big deal.
Like others have said not a big deal.
Good more for the rest of us. Can’t believe we’re still hashing this out.
Shit like this makes me want to be a vendor. I won't even try to dial in a load on 1st firing of new brass. If seating a bullet in that shit crushes the shoulder or something, it goes in the garbage. I'll lose 10 plus peices at a match anyways, BFD. If Lapua did give you anything as far as return your money etc., I'd lose respect for them and put them in the category of hornady and vortex in my askew little world of mine.
Unacceptable how? They'll be indistinguishable from other lapua brass after being sized or at least run over a mandrel. If those dings have no effect, why are they unacceptable?
Most of us aren't paying a premium for Lapua because it looks pretty, or because we think it can be loaded without sizing.
Sez you Mister.
Lookit this:
And this:
Just try and tell me that ain't sexy.
Just give it a few tattoos and some red bottomed heels and, uh, .... I'll be right back.
Sez you Mister.
Lookit this:
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And this:View attachment 7888514
Just try and tell me that ain't sexy.
Just give it a few tattoos and some red bottomed heels and, uh, .... I'll be right back.
Well; I should’ve said “pretty out of the box”. The OP’s brass will look just like yours if he puts it through the same process.
I like good looking ammo if that’s the result, but being concerned about dinged necks seems like it’s more about playing dress-up with guns than actually shooting.
Haha, winner of the troll award so far. Dress up ? Tough talk behind that keyboard . Why say such a dumb thing when you don't have to ?Well; I should’ve said “pretty out of the box”. The OP’s brass will look just like yours if he puts it through the same process.
I like good looking ammo if that’s the result, but being concerned about dinged necks seems like it’s more about playing dress-up with guns than actually shooting.
Well; I should’ve said “pretty out of the box”. The OP’s brass will look just like yours if he puts it through the same process.
I like good looking ammo if that’s the result, but being concerned about dinged necks seems like it’s more about playing dress-up with guns than actually shooting.
Apparently you haven't read the thread but the fella that's unhappy with his tumbling process.
He wants the INSIDE of the brass to look as shiny as the outside.
Talk about playing dress up...
What? Wheres the annealing marks? What year is this 2000?Sez you Mister.
Lookit this:
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And this:View attachment 7888514
Just try and tell me that ain't sexy.
Just give it a few tattoos and some red bottomed heels and, uh, .... I'll be right back.
If Haneys retarded ass calls you a troll that just means your are right @Yondering
Yes: don't buy Lapua. Those of us who know better and aren't hung up on superficial bullshit will keep buying it.
These are the kind of dumbasses who probably want the inside of the cases sparkling clean after every tumble.
I can’t believe there’s 2 pages on a subject that is solved by a step you should do to any new brass.
Just picked up 100 6.5 creedmoor LRP and they weren't quite as bad as OP, but many dented case mouths.My last two boxes of LRP 6.5 CM Lapua brass looked just like that.
The most recent 6-BR had just a couple of dented mouths.
Back in the gold/black, paper box days, none were dented. It was also $37 per box...
This was my first purchase of Lapua brass, only used Hornady and Norma prior.
Just fireformed yesterday 50 pieces and both accuracy and ES/SD was a noticeable improvement over both Norma and Hornady!
I also didn't separate cases by weight or anything so I'm sure that was the culprit with the other 2, I weighed about 10 of each and Lapua was much more consistent.
What? Wheres the annealing marks? What year is this 2000?
Those cases had been fired 14 times. I turned the necks for a different rifle that day.
I have Lapua 6-BR with 32 firings that have never been annealed.
In fact, I've never annealed a single piece of brass in my life.
Yr 2000? You're showing your age.
It's circa :1995.
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