Anybody ever seen this?

[Lefty Trigger]

Loaded up some test rounds for my 6.5x47 Lapua and had one that would not chamber. Took me a while to see it but found this weird bump. The powder is Accurate 2700 which is fine ball powder and case was full length resized. The really weird issue is I use a RCBS competition seater that the case neck slides up into so this would not have happened there unless the case did not go up into the die for what ever reason. I have not pulled it yet but plan to, I want to know whats in there?

 

[David Christian]

Could that be powder kernels that were stuck to the inside of the neck which got wedged in place as the boat tail was seated?

 

[Old Navy]

Possibly overcharged. Ball powder does not compress. Maybe an over annealed case. If you have the right id sleeve it should not be able to do that.

 

[hpshooter]

Powder clinging to neck lube wedged under the boat tail on the bullet ?

Please let us know what you find upon pulling the bullet.

 

[Lefty Trigger]

Not even close to being over charged, powder shakes in the case. Accurate 2700 is such a fine powder it's not likely its stuck in the neck.

 

[centerlineseal]

Had the same phenomena happen with Lake City brass necked down to 7mm-08. Several cases like the picture after initial firing and another full length resizing. I attribute it to my failure to skim/turn the neck. Just speculating until I perform the task and see. Using factory Lapua 7mm-08 brass in the meantime.

 

[Rope2horns]

From the looks of the brass it ain't tumbling media..........I kid I kid!!

 

[338 dude]

My two guesses and they are just a guess I’ve never had this problem do you lube the inside of your neck possibly powder sticking to it or the bullet started very crooked before seating

 

[watercam]

I had exactly the same issue with a .308 Palma load. Two kernels of Varget managed to get stuck under the neck. Never happened again.

 

[Mr Underbridge]

Maybe you had a build of of crud bullet lube that made its way down and jammed the bullet?

 

[Lefty Trigger]

From the looks of the brass it ain't tumbling media..........I kid I kid!!

Ha, thats funny... I sonic clean my brass and while it dont get super shiny its clean. However to speak loudly about Lapuas quality of their brass, this batch is on it's 19th reload and I'm just now finding split necks.

 

[Lefty Trigger]

I pulled the bullet and I'm not sure what it is but something appears to have been either in my die or stuck to the bullet when I pulled it from the box. Looks like a shard of lead? Will try to get pic of it. Looks like it started in the case and snagged and rolled into the edge and made the dent. I think if it would have chambered it would have fired and been nothing to it, just gone?

 

[ckrifles]

Tumbling media what's that? Brass looks good to me.

 

[Lefty Trigger]

No pic of it but figured it out, its a small piece of black plastic that looks like lead because its from the powder bottle, I bet. That would also explain how it got in the case... it went through my powder hopper or auto trickler? Fluke thing that will probably never happen again in my lifetime. I simply dumped the powder and resized the case put the powder back and reseated the bullet, eazy-peezy

 

[LGKLAS]

Hi Lefty, off topic , but a question and I've long wondered what the answer would be. Any issue or problem FL resizing a live primed case? I wonder if anyone has had a primer detonate when resizing. I have not done it. But there have been times when I've wanted to pull a bullet but did not because I worried about resizing and primer detonation.

 

[piie]

Hi Lefty, off topic , but a question and I've long wondered what the answer would be. Any issue or problem FL resizing a live primed case? I wonder if anyone has had a primer detonate when resizing. I have not done it. But there have been times when I've wanted to pull a bullet but did not because I worried about resizing and primer detonation.

If you remove the decapping rod you should be able to - or if you have neck-sizing only die...

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Can you imagine the explosion of a case in a sealed die?

 

[dcali]

Can you imagine the explosion of a case in a sealed die?

This has always been what stopped me. I don't know what would happen. Maybe the bullet would just pop out the top (my guess). Maybe it would explode like a hand grenade. But I have no interest in finding out! A stuck charged case case in a sizing die is nothing I want any part of.

 

[MislMan]

Can you imagine the explosion of a case in a sealed die?

You mean like when seating a bullet and the primer ignites? That would be a pipe bomb.

 

[Twicepop]

Hi Lefty, off topic , but a question and I've long wondered what the answer would be. Any issue or problem FL resizing a live primed case? I wonder if anyone has had a primer detonate when resizing. I have not done it. But there have been times when I've wanted to pull a bullet but did not because I worried about resizing and primer detonation.

Never had one detonate while re-sizing, I always pull the decapping pin. However I did have one detonate trying to punch out an 90 year old primer with a Wilson punch. Me being the cheap SOB that I am was trying to salvage some military brass for the scrap brass bucket instead of throwing it away. When it went off (at arms length) it was the most ear splitting noise I think I've ever heard. I put a permanent burn mark on my bench top, it welded the tip of the Wilson punch into the flash hole of the case (destroyed the punch). A few seconds after it happened my wife stuck her head in the basement stair well and yelled WTF are you doing and are you OK? When I went upstairs to clean up, my stomach began to hurt a bit, so I pulled out my T-shirt and about belly button level it was full of little holes. When I pulled up my shirt the area around my belly button looked like I had been shot with a little tiny shotgun. This was case #13, the first 12 punched out with no problems, the rest of the cases went to the trash after that. The ammo was 30-06 military with a 1928 head stamp that the necks had split after sitting for so many years.