Classic Green destroying brass?

[Paulinator]

Anybody have a Classic Green that dents the crap out of the casings when it ejects them? Anyone have a solution to this problem?

 

[Merch]

All SAN rifles dent brass but why is it a problem?

 

[sunray]

Don't worry about it. Neck dents will come out when you expand 'em, body dents on the next firing.

 

[rdgietz]

My Classic green beats the crap out of the brass.. smashes the mouth of the cartridge and puts a big dent in the body too.. ..

Has anyone every tried to tune the ejector so this does not happen.. ????? I have been thinking about trying this.. but dont want to modify my swiss...

rdg

 

[Paulinator]

So you guys don't think that a dent in the body of the brass could possibly affect accuracy when reloaded?

 

[Merch]

My Classic green beats the crap out of the brass.. smashes the mouth of the cartridge and puts a big dent in the body too.. ..

Has anyone every tried to tune the ejector so this does not happen.. ????? I have been thinking about trying this.. but dont want to modify my swiss...

rdg

Why bother?

So you guys don't think that a dent in the body of the brass could possibly affect accuracy when reloaded?

Personally I have never reloaded SAN brass (yet) but many other threads on CGN have indicated people get 5-6 reloads out of their SAN brass without issue.

 

[Roughneck12]

Why would it effect accuracy? Can't see why it would but I know nothing about reloading.

 

[Farlsincharge]

It doesn't affect accuracy. The pressure will iron out that dent against the chamber wall with ease. The only problem I run into is sometimes the sizing ball will crush a neck if it is too badly dented.

 

[yoyo]

Has anyone tried to turn off the gas valve? It looks like that you could cut the gas by turning the valve 180 deg.

 

[Farlsincharge]

Has anyone tried to turn off the gas valve? It looks like that you could cut the gas by turning the valve 180 deg.

Spend $3000 for a nonrestricted semi and then cycle it by hand?

 

[cie]

The SAN rifles use the ejection port as an ejector. There are no options to reduce gas flow and allow reliable cycling. Many use a piece of rubber or velcro glued to the ejection port to buffer the ejection and reduce dents.

 

[RobSmith]

If you can afford a Classic Green, you can afford to feed it without resorting to reloading.

 

[gorky]

Crushed brass = what happens when you pack that much awesome into a rifle

 

[RJD]

crushed brass = what happens when you pack that much awesome into a rifle

+1

 

[simar]

Crushed brass = what happens when you pack that much awesome into a rifle

This is why the AR gets way more use...

 

[misanthropist]

If you can afford a Classic Green, you can afford to feed it without resorting to reloading.

Some people reload because they can produce better ammo than factory.

 

[Merch]

Some people reload because they can produce better ammo than factory.

^ THIS

But also just becuase you can afford a $3k ish rifle doesn't mean that reloading isn't worthwhile cost wise. If the cost for factory ammo is more than your value of time it is better reload. It is easy for the cost of ammo to far exceed the cost of the gun.

 

[crazycrocket]

If you can afford a Classic Green, you can afford to feed it without resorting to reloading.

Unless you are like me and spent all your money on the gun and just sit there and twitch until you can find more affordable ammo.

 

[TangoKilo]

So you guys don't think that a dent in the body of the brass could possibly affect accuracy when reloaded?

I reload all of my Swiss arms fired brass.

Never had a problem with the dents. You would be surprised how much the sizing die irons them out.

 

[Styrak]

Anybody have a Classic Green that dents the crap out of the casings when it ejects them? Anyone have a solution to this problem?

It's not a problem, it's a feature. One of the things that makes it so reliable.
I'd rather have a reliable, hard ejection than an anemic one like AR's have.