Trash these and start over? Or fire and hope for the best

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Trash these and start over? Or fire and hope for the best

Postby Bergie on Thu May 12, 2022 12:19 pm

In a reloading frenzy, I grabbed some primed 308 cases and some IMR 3031 (41gr) and topped it all with Barnes 130gr TTSX. I wasn’t too happy with the seating depth, but hastily made about 15 rounds. It was all feeding well but I noticed some oddities. The shoulder on a couple seem crushed. (See pics) Not sure of the issue. Too much bullet compression? Die not seating bullet correctly? So am thinking maybe I pull ALL these bullets and start over and run them thru the sizing die again (no deprimer pin!) Or okay to feed these odd rounds into the gun (Rem 700) -if they go in- and firing will ‘resize’ the brass regardless. (?)
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Re: Trash these and start over? Or fire and hope for the best

Postby OldmanFCSA on Thu May 12, 2022 1:46 pm

i can save them without disassembly - but won't tell you how

pull and re-size - pay attention to neck tension - do not crimp
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Re: Trash these and start over? Or fire and hope for the best

Postby Rowdy Roddy on Thu May 12, 2022 6:26 pm

Looks like you had your seating die set too low. If they will chamber they will fireform.
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