CASE SEPARATION
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Very interesting separation after a second shot. I haven't seen this other than in 303 unknown number of firings in 4 different chambers.Well after 16 yrs of reloading looks like I have finally got a case of separation.
This is in my .204,Norma brass,annealed ,twice fired with 27.7grs of N140 with 40gr Vmax.
Crushed & straight in the brass bin for this fella
Duff case from the start.
Foxyboy43
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Had a few of them over the years - all from “once-fired” cases which came with the rifle. In a worst case (sorry) scenario the front half can jam in the chamber - never happened to me but I do always use the sharpened bent wiper blade stiffener trick to detect any as part of the reloading process.
Have a couple i have collected over the yearsWell after 16 yrs of reloading looks like I have finally got a case of separation.
This is in my .204,Norma brass,annealed ,twice fired with 27.7grs of N140 with 40gr Vmax.
Crushed & straight in the brass bin for this fella
Not mine i must add .
1st a 7 × 64 hornaday brass( 2 reload so he said ) this guy had a bag full of them and most of the fired one's showed seperation.
2nd
6.5 creedmore factory S&B not reloads
(new rifle + factory ammo ) a good % of fired brass was the same i suppose he was more interested in getting his new toy zeroed than checking the fired brass ?
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Stuck front half cost a friend a .223 barrel.Had a few of them over the years - all from “once-fired” cases which came with the rifle. In a worst case (sorry) scenario the front half can jam in the chamber - never happened to me but I do always use the sharpened bent wiper blade stiffener trick to detect any as part of the reloading process.
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Why?
Couldn't remove it without a try with a reamer.
Wow -
Wow - sounds brutal. I've seen and done a few with a cleaning rod down the barrel
Reckon chamber must have had a defect allowing the brass to hold.
Factory Hornady 223… several cases split out of the same box, plus one with a primer in the wrong way around 
Foxyboy43
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Was planning on doing some bin diving to get some once fired brass ready for my brothers new toy but think he’ll be better off buying some decent factory ammo & starting from that!Factory Hornady 223… several cases split out of the same box, plus one with a primer in the wrong way around
We were shooting at Catterick yesterday. A friend had 5 Lapua 223 cases fully separate in the chamber. He had reloaded them only three times. All broken bits came out fine with a cleaning rod. And then another guy had a box of factory PPU 308. The cases looked like they had been annealed around the centre of the case, and then when he fired a few, holes appeared in the same place!!!
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