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March 31st, 2024, 12:32 PM #1
Inspect your reloads/handloads
Split Neck Starline.jpg
I have been a bit lazy about inspecting reloads lately, but this morning I dropped 50 rounds of 6.5mm Grendel ammo into a chamber checker and gave each round a good look. I didn't notice this guy until today. This is virgin Starline brass with a split neck. Believe it or not, I have had these Hornady FMJ bullets shoot one-hole groups at 100 yards, but this round almost certainly would have fallen out of the group.Removed NRA Life Member pic. LaPierre and Chris Cox are ruining NRA.
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March 31st, 2024, 01:08 PM #2
Re: Inspect your reloads/handloads
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
The first gun I reloaded for was my S&W 1500 Varminteer in .222Rem. Being that I was in my early/mid teens I couldn't just go out any buy components(no money, some shops wouldn't sell to a kid, etc). I cant begin to count the number of times I reloaded that brass and eventually had split necks or other issues.
What ticked me off the most is when the brass passed inspection prior to seating, then the next split while seating. ....wasted primer.Last edited by knight0334; March 31st, 2024 at 05:00 PM.
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March 31st, 2024, 04:14 PM #3
Re: Inspect your reloads/handloads
Yep.
I.was gifted a Rem700.in.7mm mag.
It came with about 50 reloaded bullets.
https://flic.kr/p/2mTXb9q
The guy reformed 338 brass to.7mm without annealing the cases.
2 rounds, no powder. A dozen like the pic.
I don't shoot others reloads and I check all.my cases after resizing.Opinions are like anal apertures. They all stink but mine.
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April 21st, 2024, 09:41 PM #4Grand Member
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Re: Inspect your reloads/handloads
Annealing brass is your friend....
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April 23rd, 2024, 01:23 PM #5Active Member
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Re: Inspect your reloads/handloads
Just out of curiosity did you use a chamfer tool on the case mouth's?
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April 23rd, 2024, 01:28 PM #6
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I was just given a bunch of 30.06 brass in the original boxes. There are also about a half-dozen rounds with primer strikes that never went bang. I don't reload. What's the best way to deal with them?
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April 23rd, 2024, 02:38 PM #7Grand Member
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You can dispose of them in regular household trash. Or sink em in the pond, or pull the heads with a bullet puller and dump the powder on the lawn.
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April 28th, 2024, 08:49 PM #8
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