Hello I am going over my brass to begin reloading again just curious about these three. I am new tot reloading only been doing it for a year. Can someone tell me if I am being to picky or should these not be loaded. Thanks
3rd fired brass
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NorCalMikie
Gold $$ Contributor
A new broom sweeps clean. Don't sweat the small stuff, just move on. 
Sorry the first three are on shoulder neck area and the last one is just up from the base of cartridge. I am just trying to learn what to look for.
Ok thanks. I figured I was being to picky. LolA new broom sweeps clean. Don't sweat the small stuff, just move on.
No they are from a handheld microscope that projects the imagine to cell phone. I use it to help see when my medicine plant is ready. Figured it would work to check out brass also but you see everything. Lol
My opinion is to shit can them , I'm glad you picked it up . Safety first , any defect like that should be dumped , you can use them for setting up your die , I wouldn't trust them with powder . I've seen stuck cases in a chamber , something you don't want .
What caliber are you loading , bullet and powder? Are you full sizing or neck sizing . How do you prep your brass , from fired case to charging.
Chris
What caliber are you loading , bullet and powder? Are you full sizing or neck sizing . How do you prep your brass , from fired case to charging.
Chris
Jager
Gold $$ Contributor
If you magnify the surface of a beautiful, smooth, sharp-as-a-razor knife... you'll find it pockmarked with craters and boulders and you'd swear it ought not be able to cut anything at all.
That's kinda what you've done here.
No one examines brass in the manner you have. There are innumerable photos and descriptions out there of what to look for when evaluating brass - including in most load manuals. You'll find that nearly all those use the naked eye.
Not saying your brass is fine. And not saying it's not. Just saying that the way you've gone about it makes it pretty much impossible to know.
That's kinda what you've done here.
No one examines brass in the manner you have. There are innumerable photos and descriptions out there of what to look for when evaluating brass - including in most load manuals. You'll find that nearly all those use the naked eye.
Not saying your brass is fine. And not saying it's not. Just saying that the way you've gone about it makes it pretty much impossible to know.
I am full FL sizing all brass is prepped by hand dry tumbled, trimmed, chamfered and deburd 22.250 IMR 8208 XBR 32 grains with 55 grain VMax COAL 2.350
Thanks I’ll put that microscope away and do it normally . Lmao.
Lay off the meds a lil bit maybe!! Lol
Hurst1324
I don't have my load book to check your numbers but your shooting a nice round , good powder and bullet , prepping is good , sizing your cases , if your sizing for minimum case headspace .002 on a bolt action , your doing fine . 32 grains of your powder with a 55 grain bullet , where does that fall in the load book , mild ,.mid range or hot . Sorry I can't check your numbers now . Your OAL , have you checked to see how far from the rifling your bullet is, jam , touching or jump.. All important in reloading . Follow your gut feeling on the brass , three cases and you picked up a little split or crack , your doing all the right things . Let me ask you , how would you feel to just load them up and fire them. Dumping a few cases no big deal. Be Safe.
Chris
I don't have my load book to check your numbers but your shooting a nice round , good powder and bullet , prepping is good , sizing your cases , if your sizing for minimum case headspace .002 on a bolt action , your doing fine . 32 grains of your powder with a 55 grain bullet , where does that fall in the load book , mild ,.mid range or hot . Sorry I can't check your numbers now . Your OAL , have you checked to see how far from the rifling your bullet is, jam , touching or jump.. All important in reloading . Follow your gut feeling on the brass , three cases and you picked up a little split or crack , your doing all the right things . Let me ask you , how would you feel to just load them up and fire them. Dumping a few cases no big deal. Be Safe.
Chris
Ned Ludd
Silver $$ Contributor
Can you post images of the same regions of those cases that have not been magnified/blown up? A side-by-side comparison of both magnified and unmagnified images is the only way you can realistically obtain useful input from other members of the forum. Without having the cases in hand, we cannot see what your eyes can see, and therefore need both types of images to have some idea of the scale of what look to be ginormous Grand Canyon-like fissures in the original set of magnified-only images.
I tossed them in my brass can I won’t know which ones they are now. Lmao
dents on the shoulders from too much lube, shoot em.
Yes for a bolt action and the load is near the bottom end of the load in book not hot at all. No I haven’t checked how far my jump was. I did load development with book COAL and they shot great at that length so I didn’t play with seating depth. I tossed them three in the brass bucket.
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