dent on case mouth??? HELP!

[SanQ]

I got some 6mm BR handload from a friend. after fire, all the case have a dent on the mouth! mouth is not round anymore.


I measured the length of the cases to be 1.543 neck= 2.71

they were fired in Blaser LRS2 rifle. 6mm BR norma barrel.

they group very good tho. 1/4 MOA.

Question:

can I still use the case to reload? what caused this? how to fix it?

thanks!

 

[Andy]

Sounds like you have an out-of-round chamber. Brass should be ok though.

 

[chappy]

run it thru your resizing die and it will be good to go. it may get dinged up when the brass is ejected.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

Looks like an ejection dent to me, and a very minor one at that.
Some autoloaders (I know the Blaser isn't an auto) really dent the crap out of brass. Have no fear, just resize and go.

 

[SanQ]

thank you!

 

[sunray]

What dent? Relax. Wee dents on the case mouth are no big deal. Your sizer die will fix what there is of it. If you get a bigger dent from the brass hitting the ground or whatever, needle nosed pliers will take enough out for the die to fix it too. Either use the pliers as a tapered reamer/mandrel or just bend the dent out enough for the expander button to fix it.
Quit using other people's reloads too. Get the data your buddy used though. Bullet, powder and primer. A 1/4" group, assuming 100 yards, is great.
You take an exceptionally good picture too. Can you tell us about how you took them?

 

[CanAm]

That is absolutely nothing to worry about. It is just from the case swinging around after ejection.