Thread: Primers won't seat properly

So I got to thinking as I was mindlessly cleaning up a few .223 cases... where do all these "once fired cases" come from?

Belmont (and others) have a good deal on their .223 ammo and print out 1000's of them. The Belmont "Black" loads have the "OFC" suffix which I'm informed means "Once Fired Case"... which is fine, but what about the poor bugger who had to pick them up, clean them, prime them and reload them??

So my questions for those in the know - In what part of the globe and under what circumstances do they use SO many rounds as to provide us with the worlds supply of empties? And all in one place so somebody can pick them up by the wheel-barrow load? I mean, you can't exactly send out a bunch of wounded one-legged Bosnian kids to pick up empties from the old battlefields around Sarajevo, can you?

Just curious.