jrayborn
02-18-2013, 10:18 PM
Well since just about everything reloading related has been out of sight price-wise, I have noticed that once-fired 30.06 cases are still reasonably priced and available so I have been picking them up. I have got about 1000 cases saved up and today went through and sized all of them. Most were no issue using 3 quick coats of Hornady spray lube and an occasional wipe of Imperial wax, but I came across about 50 that when I tried to size them they were tight!
At first I stopped and when you look at them it almost looked like they were shot in a chamber kind of like the .303 British. Not exactly round. I could size them (but not without some difficulty) and I set them aside. When sized they all had a very thin layer of brass shaved off the outside of the case, maybe .002-.003 thick off the most out of round side.
When all the others were finished I checked all of them with a bent wire to see if they were stretched and I see no indication they were. Then being this side of paranoid, I cut one length-wise with a dremmel. The entire case looks OK and I see no reason not to use these cases. I didn't see any stretching anywhere. I will keep them separate and use them to test with but wow, I have never seen 30.06 cases so big, and apparently all were once fired based on the crimps from the primer pockets.
Anyone else ever see something like this?
At first I stopped and when you look at them it almost looked like they were shot in a chamber kind of like the .303 British. Not exactly round. I could size them (but not without some difficulty) and I set them aside. When sized they all had a very thin layer of brass shaved off the outside of the case, maybe .002-.003 thick off the most out of round side.
When all the others were finished I checked all of them with a bent wire to see if they were stretched and I see no indication they were. Then being this side of paranoid, I cut one length-wise with a dremmel. The entire case looks OK and I see no reason not to use these cases. I didn't see any stretching anywhere. I will keep them separate and use them to test with but wow, I have never seen 30.06 cases so big, and apparently all were once fired based on the crimps from the primer pockets.
Anyone else ever see something like this?