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That makes sense. My brass supply is still small so I scrounge everything I can currently.

AndyC wrote:

deplorable wrote:A serious reloader wouldn't leave their brass behind. For heaven's sake, it's hard enough leaving strangers' range brass behind.

Funny thing - I actually responded to a shooting at a club in Cape Town around 1990; youngster had been shot in the armpit (driveby) but the brass was all .45acp and had a sharpie stripe across the case-head like we reloaders do. Cops weren't interested in my brilliance, tho...

The sharpie mark is to indicate how many times they've been loaded?

As an alternative twist, you could make the suspect's rounds that he fired Berdan primed. These types of cases are not easily reloadable without modifications. The average reloader probably wouldn't mess with them. This would shoot holes in his claim that he reloaded them.

And I did check and there are some manufacturers that have made Berdan primed 5.56.