Small flash hole - Warning in 5.56 brass

[Culpeper]

Everyone who reads these words check your store bought or range pick-up Igman 223/5.56 brass before you attempt to deprime it. The flash holes are undersize for standard de-capping pins like in the RCBS and other die sets.

Me? The boys and I up at the Home just mash the case mouths with a really big hammer and chuck it in the scrap bucket (pronounced Boo-kay. That's French for bucket).

[Culpeper]

Two more small flash hole cartridges.

AMNT and PIN.

Don't know who makes it.

[Whig]

Never heard of Igman. May be some new foreign brass manufacturer to take advantage of shortages. Sounds frustrating like .45ACP with small primers!

[Culpeper]

Igman has been in business for decades. First for the Soviets et. al., then for the themselves in Bosnia.

https://www.igman.co.ba/?lang=eng

I have some modern IK 7.62x54 ammo and the flash holes are normal. No issues I don't know who is AMNT and PIN but once you break a pin and bend the stem most people look for that stuff in the first cull. Hooboy am I sensitive to it.

[butlersrangers]

Reading a bunch of material on different gun forums indicates "igman" ammunition has been manufactured since 1950 at Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Some comments give it a checkered career, but a lot of people have had good performance.

There are lots of references to small 'flash-holes' and broken de-capping pins.

One re-loader solved the problem by opening the flash-hole with a 3/32" drill.

[psteinmayer]

I only reload 5.56 brass from Lake City or IMI. No problems with those and they are all already Mil-Spec and reload great... and no flash hole issues!

[butlersrangers]

5.56mm Brass is plentiful; I only reload U.S. factory 5.56 brass, that I have fired as new ammo.

I was just considering Culpeper's original question.