OK, thank you all for the corrosive lesion but since I want to load for the guns I shoot, with the loads I like and have been shooting for the past 30 years the reason I am pulling them apart is because I have less than 2 cents per round invested in them..
The powder out of the cases is now in my wifes garden and when it was pulled it had a very strong chemical smell. This usually indicates its gone unstable.
The old primers since they are corrosive will be deposed of in the correct manner.
The reason for my post is not to discuss if any one shoots ww2 ammo or should I.
The reason for my post was to ask if anyone reloaded using the component and found the bullet weights to be so poor for average bullet weight. A min max of over 5 GR seems to be a bit much from the same ammo company using the same bullet in the same year.
I have an M1 Grand and an 03-A3 and both have rated barrels of excellent so shooting corrosive primers is not something I will do and second I am too lazy to have to clean them that much.
I do enough of that shooting black powder.
