Stuck case!!!!

[3jimbo3]

Ok, I'm reloading some 22-250 with my RCBS dies. While starting my run about 12 -15 cases into it, bam! I pulled the bottom ring off the case. So here I am with a stuck case and no way of getting it out. I go online to order a stuck case puller (after years of reloading, being lucky and not getting one stuck) to find they are quiet expensive for what you get. Luckily I found a description of the components that make up the kit. So I go into my shop and dug up a spare tap, drill bit, quarter inch bolt, and an old s&k socket. Ten minutes later…….I'm back to punching out 22-250 coyote stoppers. For free! Sometimes it definitely pays just to look around at what you have laying around. Plus with the $20 savings, thats more shooting, casting, or what ever.

[Sticky]

Good to know, never stuck a case in many years of reloading, but... it can happen and it's good to know a little googlefu and creativity in the shop may rescue you from the creek!

[Dale in Louisiana]

I was going to post the solution you discovered on your own.

Don't you feel even a little bad to not fork over twenty bucks for the official stuck case remover?

dale in louisiana

[3jimbo3]

Well I did at first and then I thought about it…….. and bought some brass. Problem solved.:bigsmyl2:

[Steve77]

The first time it happened to me, I remembered reading about the shop built case remover on the web, I found the thread and voila, back in business in no time. On a Sunday evening there was no other way to save my reloading session. I have used it a few times since.

[salpal48]

No matter how many years your loading and what experience you have. There is always a need for the remover. . It's always when you least expect it.

[triggerhappy243]

use a little more case lube.

[Janoosh]

Next time, just put the die with the stuck case in the freezer. This really works as brass and steel have different rates of contraction when cold.

[3jimbo3]

Next time, just put the die with the stuck case in the freezer. This really works as brass and steel have different rates of contraction when cold.


Good to know, I will try this as well.

[Hogdaddy]

Next time, just put the die with the stuck case in the freezer. This really works as brass and steel have different rates of contraction when cold.

^^^^^^^^^This is spot on ; ) ^^^^^^^^^^^
H/D

[lightman]

I've only stuck a few cases in my years of reloading. The first was pre-internet, and I had never seen a stuck case remover, did not figger it out on my own, and bought one! Yeah, after seeing it I had everything in the shop that was needed. The good side is that it came in a die box that makes it easy to store and to locate.

It happens to a lot of us, sooner or later. You get in a hurry, or get in cruse control mode, and miss lubing a case. Then you pull the rim off! I think mine was a military 30-06 fired in a 1919 Browning, that required a ton of ump on the press handle. Anyway, Congrats on your Googlefu and ingenuity.

[country gent]

When I made my remover set up I was lucky in that I had a .005 undersized tap 1/4 28 to use in it. Freezing czn help alot as can cycling it over several days the contractions seem to work the case out some. Also soaking for a few hours with a good copper solvent can help break the bond between die and case. Its a pain when it happens and can really become an issue at times

[triggerhappy243]

now that i think about it, in all the years i have been reloading, i never did get a case stuck.... came close, but never pulled a rim off. i only use rcbs case lube and have developed a "feel" for the right amount of case lube. i cannot speak for the other case lubes and have not heard what other lubes contribute to stuck cases. this might be another good thread.