Foxyboy43
Well-Known Member
A real puzzle for me - or maybe I really am Doolally……
Doing some reloading of the blessed triple deuce after tumbling the cases as per usual; twenty or so cases in through (neck) resizing. The press ram stopped dead just as the priming rod entered the case so thinking it was a case mouth dent I raised the ram and tried again - same result! Removed the case and upon examination found the neck was blocked with what looked suspiciously like an inverted 50gns Vmax bullet which was sitting flush with the case mouth - hmmmm….
Your hero thought “bug…oh dear that is odd” but a simple shake and the offending object will pop out. It didn’t what is more it wouldn’t go any further into the case - hmmm again…
After much shaking of bullet and my head I still couldn't figure out:-
1. How the bullet had got there?
2. How it came to be upside down in the case?
3. Why was it stuck fast - in both directions?
4. How the hell I was to get the bullet out without damaging the case (little darlings .222 brass lads).
Having spent some time trying to answer any one of the four I gave up on each and decided the hacksaw was obviously the only way to go. Now - a timely alert for the more err… delicate readers i.e. those who only f/l resize dahling - please look away now….
The more observant of those still awake will notice the presence of a modicum of tumbler media adjacent to the now near-decapitated brass and may well wonder the point of showing it. Well, dear reader - the point is the entire lot was inside the offending case and was clearly the reason the Vmax would not go any further in the case, evidently and to my slight surprise either the case was already crimped or the die had crimped the case (and the reversed bullet - level with the case mouth) - unlikely before being unable to deprime and then bringing the ram to a halt. Fair enough you might say but my tumbler is in the garage, my Vmax are in the man-cave and the only time they come near each other is after tumbling when the brass have been removed from the tumbler, individually emptied and double tapped before checking and only then come indoors for neck-sizing, depriming/priming, checking for incipient head separation/splits, finally measuring the trimmed case, powder loading and placing of brass on the press just before raising the ram to seat the bullet.
I am utterly baffled as to where the bullet came from, how it entered the case (upside down) and how/why the polishing medium was there at all, never mind filling the case. Maybe I am just Doolally after all?
Class discuss….
Doing some reloading of the blessed triple deuce after tumbling the cases as per usual; twenty or so cases in through (neck) resizing. The press ram stopped dead just as the priming rod entered the case so thinking it was a case mouth dent I raised the ram and tried again - same result! Removed the case and upon examination found the neck was blocked with what looked suspiciously like an inverted 50gns Vmax bullet which was sitting flush with the case mouth - hmmmm….
Your hero thought “bug…oh dear that is odd” but a simple shake and the offending object will pop out. It didn’t what is more it wouldn’t go any further into the case - hmmm again…
After much shaking of bullet and my head I still couldn't figure out:-
1. How the bullet had got there?
2. How it came to be upside down in the case?
3. Why was it stuck fast - in both directions?
4. How the hell I was to get the bullet out without damaging the case (little darlings .222 brass lads).
Having spent some time trying to answer any one of the four I gave up on each and decided the hacksaw was obviously the only way to go. Now - a timely alert for the more err… delicate readers i.e. those who only f/l resize dahling - please look away now….
The more observant of those still awake will notice the presence of a modicum of tumbler media adjacent to the now near-decapitated brass and may well wonder the point of showing it. Well, dear reader - the point is the entire lot was inside the offending case and was clearly the reason the Vmax would not go any further in the case, evidently and to my slight surprise either the case was already crimped or the die had crimped the case (and the reversed bullet - level with the case mouth) - unlikely before being unable to deprime and then bringing the ram to a halt. Fair enough you might say but my tumbler is in the garage, my Vmax are in the man-cave and the only time they come near each other is after tumbling when the brass have been removed from the tumbler, individually emptied and double tapped before checking and only then come indoors for neck-sizing, depriming/priming, checking for incipient head separation/splits, finally measuring the trimmed case, powder loading and placing of brass on the press just before raising the ram to seat the bullet.
I am utterly baffled as to where the bullet came from, how it entered the case (upside down) and how/why the polishing medium was there at all, never mind filling the case. Maybe I am just Doolally after all?
Class discuss….
