Glocked brass safe for reloading?

[Riven]

I ran into my first peace of bulged .40 yesterday when it jammed in my Beretta CX4.
This is the first peace i have ever found but i dont want another jam again so i was thinking of a full length sizing die, as long as its still safe use after its been bulged.

Too bad i cant size loaded rounds since i have 1000+ already done.

 

[woodenpigeon]

Get a lee factory crimp die for .40 and you should be fine to use the 1000 you have loaded.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

Get a lee factory crimp die for .40 and you should be fine to use the 1000 you have loaded.

this.

glocked brass is fine, check it over and if there are no cracks, etc you'll very likely be fine.

 

[cement head]

When I was at the target club the other day this guy told me about a die that Lee makes to take the bulge out of Glock brass . it's called the bulge buster . you just run your brass through it before you size and deprime it if I remember right .

 

[woodenpigeon]

Link to this ^ http://leeprecision.com/case-conditioning-tools/lee-bulge-buster-kit/

 

[Riven]

Thats exactly what i was looking at woodenpigeon

I was reading that some say its not safe to reload bulged brass since the bulge will now be thinner and will split easy.
I guess if a case blows in a glock it will cause way more problems since the case is not supported

What will a crimp die do to fix bulged cases???

 

[Ganderite]

The Lee factory crimp die will iron loaded rounds to guarantee they will chamber. I load range pick up brass, so use this die as the final step for all my pistol ammo.

 

[Riven]

So it will fix the bulge at the rim as well?
I did not think it had anything to do with forming the case other than putting a heavier than the standard die set can.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

So it will fix the bulge at the rim as well?
I did not think it had anything to do with forming the case other than putting a heavier than the standard die set can.

it's got a carbide resizing ring as well as putting a crimp on a loaded round.

the case will be weaker if you kept shooting hot loads in a glock, but the case will always be supported in the chamber. might get some hot gas shot out of the chamber but that's about it.

 

[ripitup911]

I use Lee factory crimp die on all pistol calibers. It is quite simply the best reloading tool Lee has ever made

 

[beltfed]

Chamber check your loaded rounds or get a chamber gauge.

 

[bartlet33]

EGW has undersized dies that resize the entire case. Fixes up those bulges.
The dies are .001 undersized and size farther down the case.

 

[ykkid]

eh?

 

[TIPPY91]

redding makes a G/RX sizing die that removes the bulge of 40cal brass

 

[thump_rrr]

Lee FCD alone will NOT remove the Glock bulge at the base.
The Lee Bulge Buster used in conjunction with the FCD will.
You can run finished rounds through the Bulge Buster.

 

[Riven]

Lee FCD alone will NOT remove the Glock bulge at the base.
The Lee Bulge Buster used in conjunction with the FCD will.
You can run finished rounds through the Bulge Buster.

Have you run live rounds through one? I was going to try it once i get one.

 

[Hotwheels81]

Lee FCD alone will NOT remove the Glock bulge at the base.
The Lee Bulge Buster used in conjunction with the FCD will.
You can run finished rounds through the Bulge Buster.

X2... Sorta

I have ran a lot of 9mm and 10mm glock brass thru the FCD and never had an issue with it not cleaning up the bulge near the base... And HOT 10mm loads (200gr XTP's over 3N38 are HOT) tend to make the cases look pretty funny.

Perfectly safe to run loads rounds thru the FCD... Every single pistol round I load is post sized in hole 5... Thousands and thousands of them....

 

[R.Soul]

I use a Lee Factory Crimp Die with the guts removed and a short push rod to run my Glocked 10mm brass right through the die and out the top. This irons out the bulge. After that I reload as usual. Being naturally cautious I only use new brass for full power loads but the conditioned stuff works fine for lighter loads. After a few loadings I begin to see creases or lines just forward of the extractor groove. That's when I retire it.

 

[wasrupzuk]

Lee FCD alone will NOT remove the Glock bulge at the base.
The Lee Bulge Buster used in conjunction with the FCD will.
You can run finished rounds through the Bulge Buster.

This- works great.

 

[stromrider]

If the brass simply has a smooth 'beer belly' below where a standard sizing die reaches it can be reused with reasonable caution although I would hesitate to approach max loads in bulged/fixed cases. If any of them have smilies on them (sharp imprint of the unsupported feed ramp area) throw them away. If you google for cutaway images the smile line is a lateral shear in the case. You can iron it flat with a pass through die but the defect is still there. IMHO...