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CBC .45 ACP brass

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#1 ·
I found a good amount of .45 ACP brass at the range the other day. The stamp appears to be "CBC". It looks OK. Is anyone familiar with this brass? What is its quality? If its as good as it looks, I'd like to buy some. Anyone know where to get it?
 
#2 ·
CBC cases

1911WB said:
I found a good amount of .45 ACP brass at the range the other day. The stamp appears to be "CBC". It looks OK. Is anyone familiar with this brass? What is its quality? If its as good as it looks, I'd like to buy some. Anyone know where to get it?
I too came across some 9mm cases labeled with the CBC markings and wondered about them myself. I looked up CBC in the indexes of the 2004 Gun Digest. All they gave were a couple of addresses, one in Brazil and the other in England (probably a distributor). I found no e-mail address either as well as no mention of what CBC stood for. :confused:
 
#4 ·
Jack said:
I found a batch of CBC 45 Auto brass at the range, too. Quite a while back...10 years? Anyway, after tumbling, it looked OK, and it has proved to be. Loaded the stuff many times - just wadcutter loads, but I'd say the stuff is decent brass.

I too have used it, no problems, but the best is TZZ or IMI, its real soft you can really feel the difference when sizing it and it lasts a lot longer. Have you noticed any of the Winchester (Clean) something with the gigantic flash hole. David
 
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Winclean brass

David Wood said:
I too have used it, no problems, but the best is TZZ or IMI, its real soft you can really feel the difference when sizing it and it lasts a lot longer. Have you noticed any of the Winchester (Clean) something with the gigantic flash hole. David
David- yes I've used some of the Winclean. When it first came out, it had the huge flash hole; but now I understand it has changed from large to small primers. Can you imagine .45 acp using smalls?
 
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1911WB said:
David- yes I've used some of the Winclean. When it first came out, it had the huge flash hole; but now I understand it has changed from large to small primers. Can you imagine .45 acp using smalls?

Yes I have seen that too a long time ago, it stopped my Dillon cold, but if you have enough of it and keep it separate I guess its OK I just had 2 or 3 and chunked them David
 
#8 ·
I just bought a box of "Rio" 357 ammo yesterday, discount-priced ammo with cheaper bullets, but the brass is CBC, and I've used it before. It's not the best on the market but it's fully serviceable, I've never seen anything but nickle-plated CBC brass. I think CBC is a Brazilian firm, it may not be Federal brass, but it will do the trick, especially for free! :cool:
PJ
 
#9 ·
papajohn428 said:
I just bought a box of "Rio" 357 ammo yesterday, discount-priced ammo with cheaper bullets, but the brass is CBC, and I've used it before. It's not the best on the market but it's fully serviceable, I've never seen anything but nickle-plated CBC brass. I think CBC is a Brazilian firm, it may not be Federal brass, but it will do the trick, especially for free! :cool:
PJ
The CBC I found was not nickle plated.
 
#13 ·
Thanks!

JucaPato said:
Hi all,

I am from Brazil, and here we have a company CBC, this is the same company that produce Magtech products.


Beliave, its a excelent brass.


Hope its help.
Thanks JucaPato, mystery solved. I have been hearing favorable reviews of Magtech ammo.

David, I too noticed the enlarged flash holes in Winchesters WinClean ammo. It has to do with a new primer compound they are using. Winchesters web site also states that it is perfectly safe to reload these cases with standard primers.
 
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Warning !!!! WE NEED MORE INFORMATION !!
For many years Speer has made plastic cartridge cases and bullets for inside home range plinking. The 38's & 44's were each boxed w/bullets and cases together. The 45's, however, were available only as bullets. The box of bullets came w/instructions on using brass cases but,because the propelent was only a primer you needed to enlarge the flash hole to make it work. (I've confirmed this.) They also warned that these cases should be kept segregated from your regular stock as it would be dangerous to have one slip into your regular loads.
ALSO, some of the guys at the club have used this technique to shoot wax bullets and some of there brass has got mixed up with range pick ups and the shooters picking it up, loading it in regular match loads, have had HOT results. Personally I'd use caution in spite of what Winchester says.
Pepe Ray
 
#15 ·
Pepe Ray said:
Warning !!!! WE NEED MORE INFORMATION !!
For many years Speer has made plastic cartridge cases and bullets for inside home range plinking. The 38's & 44's were each boxed w/bullets and cases together. The 45's, however, were available only as bullets. The box of bullets came w/instructions on using brass cases but,because the propelent was only a primer you needed to enlarge the flash hole to make it work. (I've confirmed this.) They also warned that these cases should be kept segregated from your regular stock as it would be dangerous to have one slip into your regular loads.
ALSO, some of the guys at the club have used this technique to shoot wax bullets and some of there brass has got mixed up with range pick ups and the shooters picking it up, loading it in regular match loads, have had HOT results. Personally I'd use caution in spite of what Winchester says.
Pepe Ray
I used to practice with X-Ring rubber bullets by drilling out the primer hole to the designated diameter. They have always been kept in a bag with the rubber bullets so they were never mixed with the regular cases I used to reload with. Due to the very noticable difference in flash hole size it was never a problem. The larger diameter of the flash hole in Winchester's WinClean cases is not enough to cause any problems. If you don't trust Winchester, call them. If you still don't trust them, gather up your WinClean brass and mail it to me. I will take care of them. ;)
 
#16 ·
Thats what I thought too!

kb0yuv Clifford said:
I used to practice with X-Ring rubber bullets by drilling out the primer hole to the designated diameter. They have always been kept in a bag with the rubber bullets so they were never mixed with the regular cases I used to reload with. Due to the very noticable difference in flash hole size it was never a problem. The larger diameter of the flash hole in Winchester's WinClean cases is not enough to cause any problems. If you don't trust Winchester, call them. If you still don't trust them, gather up your WinClean brass and mail it to me. I will take care of them. ;)


I thought they were from primer powered catridges too, at first, until I started finding them everywhere, I load towards the light side, so I tried one to see if it pushed the primer back or anything like excess pressure on the primer but it was just fine, so now I do not even keep them separate, I just shoot em up. I might try them with some wax bullets, and see how they work. Good Shooting! David Wood