Preparing new brass for reloading

[hootshoot]

I've got some new Winchester and Remington brass for reloading, I notice a few of them are a bit wonky around the neck...

Should new brass be ready to load from the bag?

Or do you need to run them through the sizing dies before loading the cartridges?

Length looks pretty consistent for them all.

Just some of the look a bit crook...

Cheers.

[Hercl]

Length should pretty much always be fine.

Can't say I've ever had any that were significantly shorter / longer than they were supposed to be.

Case mouth is usually the area that's seriously out of sorts. Neck and shoulder can be a bit off.

99% of the time you can seat a bullet into new brass straight out of the pack, but it won't hurt to run them through a sizing die before seating your bullets.

[Blackened]

For the first loading you can always just resize the necks which takes no time at all.

Fireform them with the first load, then continue with regular sizing/trimming as you see fit.

[Hardcast]

Yep, I usually run a fine drill bit through the primer hole, just to uniform them all, neck size to make sure that they will hold a projectile
then load them with something cheap and fireform them. Then check everything.

[Norton]

Yep, I usually run a fine drill bit through the primer hole, just to uniform them all

I must admit I've never paid much attention to the primer hole.

Did you start drilling the primer holes because of a specific problem? Did you find an improvement anywhere specifically?

Or just doing it to be thorough / best practice?

[Hardcast]

I can't say that I've noticed an improvement, because I've done it that way for years, weather it's on new cases or once fired factory stuff that I've
used to run a new rifle in, and keep the cases. Look closely at the primer holes on some of the cheaper brass and you'll see a few roughies.
As for the more expensive brass, I've never bought any to comment on, but old Norma brass that I've aquired over the years does seem to be good.

[Turkle]

Yep, I usually run a fine drill bit through the primer hole, just to uniform them all.

If nothing else, probably helps to stop tumbler media getting stuck in the odd ones?

One less thing to clean out is always good...