Casing neck squat ,is this ok?

[Brianma65]

Fired off about 150 rnds today and about half of them had an indent in the neck. I was wondering if this is safe and are these cases reloadable? Was using 3 gray lar 15 mags from questar and 3 black mags with orange follower. First rnd from gray mag seemed to be a little hard to load ,other 9 were ok. Rifle was an SU 16 F.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

yes you can reload them, the expander on your die will fix them.

 

[yodave]

how it happens...........

the neck of the case is hitting your receiver on the way out of the ejection port, it is a very common issue with semi auto rifles and has no effect on shooting the ammo, chambering or extracting, the dent arrived long after all of those things did. The mouth of the case will be returned to the proper dimensions when you resize it, you are fine to reload it, the cases however will not last as long as they could if they didn't suffer that beating upon ejection, think of how much more your moving the metal when you size and after you fire.........

 

[Brianma65]

Ok thanks

 

[mmattockx]

I wouldn't trust the expander button to open those up again without tearing a few up. I use a screwdriver to straighten out most of the dent first, then resize and load normally.


Mark

 

[Brianma65]

I wouldn't trust the expander button to open those up again without tearing a few up. I use a screwdriver to straighten out most of the dent first, then resize and load normally.


Mark

Thank you for the tip.

 

[Johnny G1]

Instead of a screwdriver, use a taper punch to slowly open those rds before sizing them, the expander will catch and fold the mouth of the case most times, had it happen with my 25-06 and the mouth was not any ways near that bad.

 

[Brianma65]

Any reason why this is only happening to half of the rnds?

 

[mmattockx]

Any reason why this is only happening to half of the rnds?

My Garand beats the crap out of the brass but never consistently, just like yours. I wouldn't worry about it, just enjoy the fact that not all of them are getting pounded.


Mark

 

[Brianma65]

My Garand beats the crap out of the brass but never consistently, just like yours. I wouldn't worry about it, just enjoy the fact that not all of them are getting pounded.


Mark

OK thanks