Not sure what’s wrong with me, hopeless optimism.

I found a guy with 135 pcs. of Hornady .500 N.E. Brass. Only problem is it looked like it had been laying in a gravel drive of a popular shooting range, for some time?!! But I worked a deal for like $1.25 each delivered, figuring I could cut my losses. But it won’t be EASY!

No matter how ugly and misformed the sides and mouths may look, it might size, blow out, or take re-annealing. It’s the rims that foul the show. Not bit off chunks, but curled over. I went through less than half. Got (40) maybe cases to try and fix. (20) or more will require some ginger work to get the rims workable even for plinking. But it is possible.

It’s sort of like finding a sack of kittens on the creek bank. Some you might save, others a lost cause. A dim sad circumstance at first for sure. But this stuff is really expensive and hard to just get anyway. I’ll see what I can do…