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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
reloading 1X fired brass
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 819178" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>The biggest risk with once fired brass is that if the chamber was way out of spec the wall of the cartridge near the base might have stretched quite a bit, which is irreversible. Its not easy to detect and measure either, unless you have a special gauge made up to do it and check each cartridge individually. </p><p></p><p>Given that a lot of surplus brass that people use is 223 or 308 and both are fired in high volumes from various machine guns, which by their nature require "loose" headspace to be reliable, I do all I can to only buy brass that was fired in regular rifles or even better in bolt guns. In the last while, new brass has been unobtainable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 819178, member: 35183"] The biggest risk with once fired brass is that if the chamber was way out of spec the wall of the cartridge near the base might have stretched quite a bit, which is irreversible. Its not easy to detect and measure either, unless you have a special gauge made up to do it and check each cartridge individually. Given that a lot of surplus brass that people use is 223 or 308 and both are fired in high volumes from various machine guns, which by their nature require "loose" headspace to be reliable, I do all I can to only buy brass that was fired in regular rifles or even better in bolt guns. In the last while, new brass has been unobtainable. [/QUOTE]
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