An interesting development
Posted: 27 Jun 2017 18:09
Several years ago, maybe six or seven years ago, I bought 2 boxes of 125 grain JSP. I don't suppose the manufacturer is important since the original box is long gone. I noticed that they seemed to have just very slight roll crimp, and some of them didn't have any perceptible cramp at all but I didn't think much of it at the time. In any case I shot a few and put the rest away.
So I just recently have started shooting again after a break of several years, and I pulled these out to shoot them up and get rid of them, but as I was loading them into the gun I noticed one in particular which the bullet had been pushed back into the case just slightly. Not very much but more than I was comfortable with. I grabbed a pair of side-cutters and used my single stage press to pull the bullet out, but I was quite surprised at how little effort it took. I also was able to reseat the bullet with just slight finger pressure, so I put a little crimp on it and single loaded it just to get rid of it.
I sat down later to go through all the remaining rounds and give them a thorough inspection. I did not find any more with setback. What I did find, thought, is five split cases. five brand new factory made rounds with split cases. now there are only 68 rounds left so I went through my brass bucket to see if I could find the fired brass and I only found 4 cases, one of which was split wide open for half the length of the case.
So now I have 63 rounds of factory ammunition that I really am not particularly comfortable firing. I figure I can either put a slight cramp on all the remaining rounds and fire them single shot, or pull the bullets and either add a light charge of Unique to make plinking rounds, or just salvage the bullets and primers and toss everything else.
So I just recently have started shooting again after a break of several years, and I pulled these out to shoot them up and get rid of them, but as I was loading them into the gun I noticed one in particular which the bullet had been pushed back into the case just slightly. Not very much but more than I was comfortable with. I grabbed a pair of side-cutters and used my single stage press to pull the bullet out, but I was quite surprised at how little effort it took. I also was able to reseat the bullet with just slight finger pressure, so I put a little crimp on it and single loaded it just to get rid of it.
I sat down later to go through all the remaining rounds and give them a thorough inspection. I did not find any more with setback. What I did find, thought, is five split cases. five brand new factory made rounds with split cases. now there are only 68 rounds left so I went through my brass bucket to see if I could find the fired brass and I only found 4 cases, one of which was split wide open for half the length of the case.
So now I have 63 rounds of factory ammunition that I really am not particularly comfortable firing. I figure I can either put a slight cramp on all the remaining rounds and fire them single shot, or pull the bullets and either add a light charge of Unique to make plinking rounds, or just salvage the bullets and primers and toss everything else.