What happened?

[CatShooter]

If spring is broken you can replace w/ an O-ring. Just my .02

Why?? The press maker will send you a new spring for free.

 

[stubbicatt]

Very wrong and bad advice - you are making a watermelons and peanuts comparison.

I understand your position. You wouldn't mind if I stood by while YOU shot a round loaded in that cartridge... would you?

If my advice is indeed bad advice, then you throw away what, $1 worth of brass. If your advice be bad, and he shoots that thing... what is his loss?

Regards,
Stubb

 

[CatShooter]

Very wrong and bad advice - you are making a watermelons and peanuts comparison.

I understand your position. You wouldn't mind if I stood by while YOU shot a round loaded in that cartridge... would you?

If my advice is indeed bad advice, then you throw away what, $1 worth of brass. If your advice be bad, and he shoots that thing... what is his loss?

Regards,
Stubb

Feel free - if he will send me that case I will load it and shoot it... and all he has that look like that.

 

[Old Navy]

I have seen several cases come out of several different rifles that looked like that. Later! Frank

 

[searcher]

If the brass had been screwed up in the upper third of the case - like a ding, etc., I'd anneal it, size it and have no worries. The base is made substantially harder and when malled as this brass is - I have to believe the stress has changed the molecular structure somehow. Maybe it weakened it, maybe not. When the first piece of brass starts to show the signs of weakness, I'd like it to be in one of the areas that one can see it coming on. Because I am not a metalurgist, I personally feel safer tossing it. I have two shooting friends (and one an ex-champion shotgunner) both missing an eye due to component failures. I also got some shrapnel in my leg from a guy shooting on the bench next to me, as well as cuts on my face from another shooter next to me on a different occasion. When you add up all of the cost of the brass I tossed as "questionable" over the years, it wouldn't financially impact anyone. Be safe......

 

[CatShooter]

If the brass had been screwed up in the upper third of the case - like a ding, etc., I'd anneal it, size it and have no worries. The base is made substantially harder and when malled as this brass is - I have to believe the stress has changed the molecular structure somehow. Maybe it weakened it, maybe not. When the first piece of brass starts to show the signs of weakness, I'd like it to be in one of the areas that one can see it coming on. Because I am not a metalurgist, I personally feel safer tossing it. I have two shooting friends (and one an ex-champion shotgunner) both missing an eye due to component failures. I also got some shrapnel in my leg from a guy shooting on the bench next to me, as well as cuts on my face from another shooter next to me on a different occasion. When you add up all of the cost of the brass I tossed as "questionable" over the years, it wouldn't financially impact anyone. Be safe......

This case is not malled... it is fine to load and shoot. Your fear of acorns is showing.

 

[searcher]

I'm speaking for those of us who perhaps place more value on their well-being - even if overly cautious.