So I think I messed up my small flash holes by using a die with standard depriming rod.....

[done111]

Well i messed up. I finally got a batch of 6.5 Creedmoor brass from Lapua and I ran about 6 or so brass through a die before loading the first time and had the wrong rod diameter on it for the small flash hole. So I'm thinking I either have to separate these couple from the herd or possibly open the flash holes of the unaltered ones to try to conform them the same.

What do you all think. Does it make a hill of beans difference leaving them bigger than the rest of the brass? Should I be culling these? Should I be buying that flash hole reamer that opens them to 0.0625"? Other option?

 

[243winxb]

Bigger makes a difference. Use them for fouling shots. Mark case head to identify them.

 

[Homerange]

For 6 bits of brass.....biff them or at some stage they'll catch you out.
For close quarters hunting shots it probably won't matter a damn however for a CM that's capable of fine accuracy.....again biff them.

 

[done111]

Ill have to find them to cull them. They are mixed in with "good " ones. I figure I'll use the standard decap pin to find em as they would probably just fit through the hole while a good smaller hole won't at all (at least I hope I can find them this way).

 

[LHSmith]

Bigger makes a difference. Use them for fouling shots. Mark case head to identify them.

Yep. They still can be useful.....you always need foulers for accuracy work. I color code the case head for different anomalies......for foulers I use red magic marker and coat the entire head- no way to miss it.

 

[done111]

Yep. They still can be useful.....you always need foulers for accuracy work. I color code the case head for different anomalies......for foulers I use red magic marker and coat the entire head- no way to miss it.

I would like to mark them but keep them with the batch of 100 brass they came from. I usually vibrate them clean overnight. Any particular marker or even a different method that is not susceptible to multiple cleaning cycles as well as super obvious

 

[done111]

So no recommendation to open holes to 0.0625” (assuming the bad ones aren’t bigger than that). I was originally going to do that to get them all the same again, I’m kinda OCD that way. If accuracy suffers, then I’m ok culling for fowlers

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Throw them away. Dont take the chance of mixing them together and dont make the rest match. Better to have 6 in the trash than 100

 

[FatBoy]

I ended up doing this to some Dasher brass with a universal decapper. I just finished up the box of 100 and keep 'em separate. No idea if it shoots any differently, it I will say they don't pull my decapping pins out anymore.

 

[M-61]

Throw them away. Dont take the chance of mixing them together and dont make the rest match. Better to have 6 in the trash than 100

Could not agree more. They NO longer have any relationship with the remaining 94 pcs. lot number, or anything else.
I have found with a magic marker coloring the case head all red works with a vibratory tumbler meaning there will be some red left. Now if you are some who tumbles for 6 or 7 hours I don't know. My experience has shown that the red will be visible enough to pull them aside. Then remark them. Now the ONLY reason I keep them is for fouling shots. I have a rifle that seems to require 3 foulers. And by a fouler I mean I shoot them at something I see on the dirt backstop. As I have said before Lapua has these smaller flash holes for a reason, they just didn't wake up one morning and decide to do this. BTW Peterson brass, with the small holes and SRP in 308 has shown some real promise. I have found their brass at the very least to be comparable to Lapua. Not enough time with it yet to say it is better.

 

[Nude nut]

Well i messed up. I finally got a batch of 6.5 Creedmoor brass from Lapua and I ran about 6 or so brass through a die before loading the first time and had the wrong rod diameter on it for the small flash hole. So I'm thinking I either have to separate these couple from the herd or possibly open the flash holes of the unaltered ones to try to conform them the same.

What do you all think. Does it make a hill of beans difference leaving them bigger than the rest of the brass? Should I be culling these? Should I be buying that flash hole reamer that opens them to 0.0625"? Other option?

I did this a few months back but not Creedmoor brass did you feel like a dumb s#+t I know I did I put them in a bag don't know where they are now must find them and load them up with the same load just for fun to see the effects it has.

Cheers Trev.

 

[Fotheringill]

OP-

We are talking about somewhere around a buck a case. The potential aggravation attached to that savings is, much, much more from inaccuracy based upon pressure differences to keeping track. Life is too short to worry about the cost of trashing them. For your own peace of mind, toss them.

 

[Richard Coody]

Throw them away. Dont take the chance of mixing them together and dont make the rest match. Better to have 6 in the trash than 100

+1

 

[Murray Brook]

I did this a few months back but not Creedmoor brass did you feel like a dumb s#+t I know I did I put them in a bag don't know where they are now must find them and load them up with the same load just for fun to see the effects it has.

Cheers Trev.

Great idea. it would be interesting to see the results. Never know sometimes, could be better.

 

[dkhunt14]

You could notch the rim a little to keep them separate. Matt

 

[done111]

Update: I had the 7 pieces of brass marked luckily. I checked the flash hole of them under a magnifying glass and couldn't find any evidence of a disrupted flash hole, they looked the exact same as the other brass that i didn't do a curiosity neck size with a Lee collet die. I checked to see if the larger depriming pin would fit through the hole figuring it would be larger, just round still and not detectable by observation. Would you believe the larger pin wouldn't fit in those cases! So now I'm thinking when I tried to resize this virgin brass (which didn't seem to change when I used the die and seemed "off") that the pin didn't fit and the pin didn't actually poke through. So hopefully when the press stopped it wasn't because it was sizing the neck but rather because it couldn't go through the hole.

Does that seem right? Could I be that lucky? If so, that dang brass is strong.

 

[M-61]

Does that seem right? Could I be that lucky? If so, that dang brass is strong.

Yes. Yes. It is.

 

[CaptainMal]

If that pin was much larger than the flash hole it should have either broken off or jammed in the hole. If the latter was the case, retracting the press ram would probably have pulled that recapping pin out of the die. Either way it would have been a "one and done".

When in doubt, throw it out. You are talking 6-7 cases - stupid chump change worth less than a decent six pack.

 

[dgeesaman]

Well i messed up. I finally got a batch of 6.5 Creedmoor brass from Lapua and I ran about 6 or so brass through a die before loading the first time and had the wrong rod diameter on it for the small flash hole. So I'm thinking I either have to separate these couple from the herd or possibly open the flash holes of the unaltered ones to try to conform them the same.

What do you all think. Does it make a hill of beans difference leaving them bigger than the rest of the brass? Should I be culling these? Should I be buying that flash hole reamer that opens them to 0.0625"? Other option?

I did this myself.

The primer pockets are almost certainly distorted. Use a primer pocket uniformer to square the bottom of the pockets.

I agree to use them for foulers, but for fun test them against your undamaged brass.

 

[dkhunt14]

Update: I had the 7 pieces of brass marked luckily. I checked the flash hole of them under a magnifying glass and couldn't find any evidence of a disrupted flash hole, they looked the exact same as the other brass that i didn't do a curiosity neck size with a Lee collet die. I checked to see if the larger depriming pin would fit through the hole figuring it would be larger, just round still and not detectable by observation. Would you believe the larger pin wouldn't fit in those cases! So now I'm thinking when I tried to resize this virgin brass (which didn't seem to change when I used the die and seemed "off") that the pin didn't fit and the pin didn't actually poke through. So hopefully when the press stopped it wasn't because it was sizing the neck but rather because it couldn't go through the hole.

Does that seem right? Could I be that lucky? If so, that dang brass is strong.

If the case went in the die, the pin either will break or go through. Matt