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Desert Eagle cases

SSG ZAGSSG ZAG Member Posts: 211 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in Ask the Experts
My new 44 mag Desert Eagle gouges and generally beats up the brass.Is this just a product of making a round that was never designed to be used in an auto go through the action?
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Extractor marks on brass cases are normal with Desert Eagles....they won't look nice and unmarked like revolver brass. If you have the older style scope mount that clamps to the barrel, sometimes the case hits the mount and will bend the case mouth.

    Edited by - Rembrandt on 06/03/2002 22:05:55
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    mine chews them up as well. They are not pretty, but they are fine to reload and shoot. It is merely cosmetic damage.

    A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
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  • spclarkspclark Member Posts: 408 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, mine does that too; I get a deep * about 1/4" long right at the case mouth on about half my ejected cases, & a dent about 1/3 of the case legth up from the rim. I reload 'em all, unless the neck splits during my case prep routine. I tend NOT to reload these cases with the hotter load combos, just to be on the safer side, & will usually sideline these cases for my Ruger.
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  • SSG ZAGSSG ZAG Member Posts: 211 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank's guys, Ive taken to reserving the worst of them to be fired in my Super Redhawk. Which eats everything fed to it,no probs yet.
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