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I've seen ring crimps more often than point crimps.
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I don't think that you can even sell lead slugs that you've cast without a license.
Yea I wonder how the OP's ammo was packaged to reflect this.You need a 06 FFL licence to sell any component that you manufacture along with all the other related paperwork....
Yea I wonder how the OP's ammo was packaged to reflect this.
I've loaded for 40 years, and claiming no expertise in the subject except the years, and must say that when we "assume" I always think of the spelling of that word, bubblegum u me. Usually the way it works out. With that said (for the billionth time world wide, sorry) I believe a round didn't chamber, driving the bullet into the case. Round tossed to the fired pile and as brass was picked up "and sold"? it was probably sorted as "Already primed" and dumped in a hopper, said because a decap pin couldn't bypass the bullet and go through the flash hole. Pin would have to be longer than the bullet. How to keep this from happening? Every case MUST be "candled" in other words, with a bright light looked into to make sure Nothing is in the case. Many times I have bought brass that has been tumbled, many times with car wax to make them pretty. The wax can build up along with the medium dust to coat the inside of the case leaving enough room for a powder load, but Now NO room for normal ballistics even with the proper powder charge, and worse a petroleum based wax "could" create a Diesel type explosion on top of the powder charge pressure.(could explain a few blowups the experts can't explain because the evidence burned up). years past taking apart older mil surplus I've found powder hardened in the case same way and a guy forced the decap assembly through the powder to decap. leaving powder in that shiny new looking case.(double charge danger? YUP) Cure, tumble, blow out with compressed air and LOOK in every case! There is a difference in looking and Seeing. See the case wall, top to bottom, the interior head, See there is No corrosion, splits or internal cracks or starting case head separation. It's harder to See in small caliber cases, but it Can and Must be done. Anyone out there pick up a rifle they've never shot and Not check for anything IN the bore? As we are forced to buy used brass for many calibers that we have No History of we must be ever more diligent. Happy (safe) Loading and Shooting guys, DanI've got two pieces of Federal .223 brass with factory new primer and a bullet rattling around loose in the case. They came that way in a lot of 1000 pieces of range brass, though how they got that way is a mystery to me. A high volume low quality reloader could easily put those cases in a progressive press vase feeder and the decapping pin just might slide past the bullet without hanging up.
Wow... I have been reloading for in the neighborhood of 40 years and never seen this before... Maybe some one can explain this one for me.
My son was given several hundred rounds of . 223 ammo which had been purchased apparently by a friend of his at a gun show . The friend tried to chamber a few rounds and they wouldn't feed. So rather than throw them out, he asked if my son wanted them and he said sure, he'd take them.
So, my son brings them home and asks me about them and I advise him to not trust unknown reloads, but rather use my collet puller to salvage the components and burn off the powder since we don't know what it is. So, he starts pulling rounds apart and just for fun, we weigh the charges for 3 random shells and find the charge weight varies by as much as 5 grains on what seems to be a target of 24 grain loads. I am thinking "ok, good call pulling these apart because whoever loaded these up obviously didn't watch what they were doing very closely "
As the operation proceeds he finds some of the case necks are cracked, others are missing part of the neck entirely. Here's where the part comes in that I am really scratching my head over though...
One of the rounds he pulls the bullet from, turns the shell upside down the powder won't come out. I told him that likely the guy had gotten lube in the case.. sure enough the powder comes out in clumps like you would expect if there was lube in the case... while trying to tap the case and remove the powder, A SECOND BULLET APPEARS THAT WAS INSIDE THE CASE WITH THE POWDER!
In all my years of experience, which granted has been on single stage presses, I have never seen anything like that before. How on earth can someone punch a bullet all the way into the case with the powder and then seat another bullet in the neck on top of the whole mess?!
I shudder to think what might have happened if someone had actually fired this round!
How can someone screw up a reload this badly accidentally ? Is this an inept progressive press operator at work? I can think of no way to make such a mistake with a single stage press.