Svt 40 chewing up cases.
- Thread starter Lucite
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Try to lower your gas setting a bit but the Tokarev is a bit harsh on brass anyway.
You will get your best accuracy and your best reliability AND your best case-life if you have your gas set so that the empties just leap out of the rifle and land on the bench beside you.
Likely your rifle also is throwin the brass a fair distance: sure sign of too much gas being bled into the mechanism.
In other words, friend SVT1940 (above) is right, as general on these rifles.
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Likely your rifle also is throwin the brass a fair distance: sure sign of too much gas being bled into the mechanism.
In other words, friend SVT1940 (above) is right, as general on these rifles.
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I've found that even with the gas system low enough to just spit out the empties there is still a little dent in the brass. I don't worry about it, it comes right out upon firing and it's not like you need that extra little bit of case capacity. My loads are nowhere near compressed.
Rimmed cases tend to have shorter lifespans where reloading is concerned, and second, a lot of those older semi-auto battle rifles (Such as the Hakim) are already pretty merciless on brass to begin with.
diesel_weasel666
CGN Regular
My SVT chews up the brass and spits it into the next timezone. They weren't designed with reloading in mind. I use surplus in my SVT and handloads in the Mosins
diesel, if your rifle is spitting them that far, enough gas is coming into the mechanism to damage the rifle.... and you don't want that.
As far as dents in the cases are concerned, remember that when they go up the spout the next time and you fire them, the dents BLOW OUT harmlessly, the cartridge fires perfectly.... and the rifle then puts a NEW dent into the casing as it ejects the thing. Bad point here is that you just can't win. Good point is that you only have one dent at a time!
Same goes for the hammered-in fluting on brass from the fluted chamber. It irons out when you resize the brass, just leaves a bit of scorching so you can see that it was there. Next time you fire the cartridge, you get a whole new set of flutes on your brass.
Think about the ORDER in which things occur and you'll understand.
Most important of all: have fun!
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As far as dents in the cases are concerned, remember that when they go up the spout the next time and you fire them, the dents BLOW OUT harmlessly, the cartridge fires perfectly.... and the rifle then puts a NEW dent into the casing as it ejects the thing. Bad point here is that you just can't win. Good point is that you only have one dent at a time!
Same goes for the hammered-in fluting on brass from the fluted chamber. It irons out when you resize the brass, just leaves a bit of scorching so you can see that it was there. Next time you fire the cartridge, you get a whole new set of flutes on your brass.
Think about the ORDER in which things occur and you'll understand.
Most important of all: have fun!
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My brass ejects mostly front about 6 feet or so. I'm going to turn the gas down one and see if it makes the dents smaller. I tried using really lite loads but accuracy went down hill doing that. I did notice that the more heavy the bullet the better accuracy I got. Good enough with Hornady 165BTSP that I'm seriously considering taking her deer hunting this Nov. She shot better with the 165's than with the 150's. Got some 200gr Speer or Nosler floating around at home I may try.
