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cracked cases
Will on kauai
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I recieved from a friend a large coffee can full of 9mm rounds all fmj lc markings on bottom. dump them out to count and sort and noticed that several maybe a good 2 dozen or more have cracks in them,and mostly from the bottom of can.could the weight from all those bullets cause those cracks? and should they be stored in boxes like how they are shipped? thank you for any and all responses.
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If that batch exhibits cracked cases, I would be really, really leary about shooting any of it.
Your life is not worth a 20 cent pistol round.
If reloads, DEFINITELY pull the bullets and toss the powder and brass.
If factory, with that many split cases, I'd still be reluctant to shoot them in any gun of mine. Where are the splits? Neck? Full Length?
Maybe you can use the can to store old wing nuts??[:D][:D]
To answer specific your questions-- no, the weight of such is not the cause of the split cases. Best scenario is, yes, to be stored as shipped from manufacture, but not critical at all. Temperature and humidity not extreme is what really counts. I store massses of reloads in five quart plastic ice cream buckets. (My excuse for eating so much ice cream, hah).
All other advice given previously is spot on. Bad policy to fire off split cases.
EDIT Will, you say ammo is non-reload, and the case spits run from rim to mouth? This gets interesting. All splits I've seen run opposite that-- starting from mouth down. (And, as indicated from Coledigger, can even happen with factory-fresh ammo for various reasons). Rim seperations work their way around circumferance wise, not longitonal splits as described, I ever seen.
Back to your LC 9mm-- more info would like have to ascertain how was determined it is indeed "as-is" from factory and not reloaded stuff? Photos availabe? Are all the primers, good & bad rounds, visually the same, and being military may have a lacquer seal? And that would still not discount someone took apart the unfired rounds and micky-moused in reloading the still unfired cases with other bullets, whatever.
Only other than reload scenario I can guess at is a bad batch from the get go from Lake City, but should have never been shipped out.
And I guess I'm getting * about the whole deal-- just curious is all. Give them to a reloader for bullet componet, and have them toss the cases, if have no use as you say, is what I'd do.
45er
I'd bet $10 that they are reloads that somebody was making a load, spaced a detail, and dumped 'em in a rather flagrant way. The splits indicate (to me anyway) that they have been reloaded so many times that the brass has thinned out or got dented/ripped being extracted, and I'll bet there are scratches running full length on all of them.
My advice-Give 'em to a reloader who can break them down and maybe use the bullets; the cases are shot (no pun intended)