Dinted and deformed cases???

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Two questions.
I was reloading for my .300 savage and when setting up my bullet seating die. I put a factory round into it and brought the shell up into the die thinking it was backed off and I would adjust it down onto the round to get my length set. It wasn't backed off and so I pushed the bullet down, taking all the shoulder out of the case. Can I do anything with this shell (safely) to bring it back into use? (pull the bullet and fire form it back into a .300 savage configuration) Or if not, how do you dispose of a loaded round like this?


Several of the cartridge cases have a small "dent" near the shoulder. They all look identical. Perhaps on ejection they are hitting the edge of something on the rifle. I loaded them up with a reduced powder charge from my other loadings and kept them seperate. There should be no problem shooting them at the range, should there? The dent is very small or I would have discarded the cases.

By the way I loaded up:
165 gr. speer grandslam (flat base)
165 gr. Sierra HP BT
130 gr. Speer HP (flat base)

Robin in Rocky
 
small dents not a problem fire them as is, (unless your reloading to max allready) and really a small dent is going to reduce the capacity by what .001 cc

the one you crunched, your going to have to pull the bullet and resize the case. I don't know how badly it got crushed so you may not be able to resize it.
 
Is your dent on the shoulder after you resize? If so too much lube on the shoulder. If dent is on the neck before resizing your probably right hitting somethig no big deal resize and reshoot.Pull the bullet on damaged round, dump powder and burn safely outside. A couple drops of oil in the case to destroy the primer and scrap the case.
 
The slight dent is no problem. Sometimes caused by too much lube. As for the crushed case, I have had it happen myself. I found the best way to recover the case was to take my RCBS Collet bullet puller and go the next cal up from what you are using and grab the case with the bullet still seated and very gently pull the case back to form. Pull the bullet, and carefully resize the case. I then would run a fireform load to blow the case back to original.
I wouldn`t bother with all this to get a case back unless it was a hard to find case, or too expensive to loose to the brass pile :) I`ve been reloading for about 30 years now, and you learn afew tricks here and there;)
 
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