Discarding Brass

[Hornet]

What do you think about reusing this brass? I did some searching online but didn't find the answers I was looking for. All pieces have been fired once. The top piece has an indentation from something and the two bottom pieces have some irregularities at the shoulder. I'm not sure what is the cause since the rest of the pieces look alright.

 

[Alderman]

Looks like a crack on the top one. I'd dump it.
If the rest of them don't look like the bottom two, you know it's a brass issue.
Wouldn't be worth the risk to me if I didn't know for sure.
That being said, I am not an expert so somebody may follow up with a good analysis of what the issue is with the bottom two.


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[rodell]

Any question? Toss 'em.

The bottom two looks like those defects are in the brass, not likely to be a problem. The split is easy. A split on a 1x is pretty rare unless it is very old.

I'd still toss 'em.

 

[Charlie-NY]

I'd toss them all. Why bother with any brass that has an apparent defect? Brass isn't that expensive (yet).

 

[DrMike]

If in doubt, toss it out.

 

[Hornet]

Brass is tossed. Thanks. At some point I'll get better at identifying brass markings... but until then I'll follow the if in doubt rule.