Swiss arms dents - accuracy issue?

[Farlsincharge]

I know you can reload the dented cases, but will there be any accuracy issues due to pressure differentials.

I have a few hundred brass from my old mini 14, some from the swiss arms, and some new brass. Would I be best to just toss the brass once it has gone through the swiss arms and buy once fired brass?

What about after this stuff has two or three dents in it, is it going to shoot the same as undented or once dented?.

 

[blacksmithden]

You're probably not going to notice a difference unless the dents are extreme.

To quote a very experienced shooter friend of mine. "Sixty thousand PSI irons the dents right out"

 

[Farlsincharge]

That's a very good point, I had not considered the effects of pressure against existing dents.

 

[.Ben]

the mini-14 lieks to dent up brass my firend jsut ought one and we started lading for it firing seems to remove many of the dents and unless the dents are very deep i don't think it will affect the capacity enough to makea difference in a mini-14....

 

[sunray]

A .223 isn't 60,000 psi, but the dents will be gone after firing just the same.

 

[Maple Leaf Pilgrim]

I thought 5.56 was about 60,000 PSI and .223 was around 50,000-52,000 PSI...

Either way, from what's been said, it doesn't matter, the dents will come right out.

 

[Ganderite]

Dents get ironed out. No problem unlss it stops case from chambering. I ignore them.

Pressure mimits for commerical and military ammo are the same, but there are two differnt pressure measuring systems in use - CUP and pzioelectric psi. Military often use the former and commericial is usually psi. Military confuse things by calling their limits "psi" but they really mean CUP.

It would be like Americans thinking that our Canadian speed limits are higher because we can drive 100 kph.