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Just curious to see if anybody else has had these issues besides me... I bought a brand new bag of Winchester 7mm Rem Mag brass to do some reloading and development since I got a new rifle and it is time to see what it wants to diet on. I was going through and inspecting my brass as I was throwing primers in it and I was a little shocked and rather annoyed with some of the brass that I found. Now maybe this is a shame on me for buying Winchester brass but irregardless, Winchester's QC (Quality Control) should have caught this I would think...
In this first photo You can see there is a triangular dent into the case shoulder that extends the entire shoulder. The upper section is completely folded/creased. There is a sharp angle protruding on the inside of the case. In my mind this case is garbage due to the fact that sharp creases like that are a stress riser and that will be the failure point. This is exacerbated by the fact that this is a magnum cartridge.
My next complaint is the case mouths themselves. I have found a handful of cases that have out of round case mouths. The case mouth on the left is fairly round and used as a reference. The case mouth on the right has some sharper corners (especially the part more towards the bottom of the picture. (I apologize as it was hard to get my camera to focus on the case mouth.) I don't think that any of these cases are unservicable due to the case mouth being out of round but it definitely means it will have to be run through the dies. Once again, I would think that Winchester's QC should have caught this.
Perhaps this is me being anal, perhaps I am justified in my concern (Especially the dent with the crease). Just thought I would throw this out to you guys to see what you think. It is safe to say I will be emailing Winchester and providing them with the photographs as well. I will be curious to see how they respond.
In this first photo You can see there is a triangular dent into the case shoulder that extends the entire shoulder. The upper section is completely folded/creased. There is a sharp angle protruding on the inside of the case. In my mind this case is garbage due to the fact that sharp creases like that are a stress riser and that will be the failure point. This is exacerbated by the fact that this is a magnum cartridge.
My next complaint is the case mouths themselves. I have found a handful of cases that have out of round case mouths. The case mouth on the left is fairly round and used as a reference. The case mouth on the right has some sharper corners (especially the part more towards the bottom of the picture. (I apologize as it was hard to get my camera to focus on the case mouth.) I don't think that any of these cases are unservicable due to the case mouth being out of round but it definitely means it will have to be run through the dies. Once again, I would think that Winchester's QC should have caught this.
Perhaps this is me being anal, perhaps I am justified in my concern (Especially the dent with the crease). Just thought I would throw this out to you guys to see what you think. It is safe to say I will be emailing Winchester and providing them with the photographs as well. I will be curious to see how they respond.