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stuck gas check in case neck
1fisher
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Hi-
I asked this over in the Experts forum also, but thought I'd put it here also.
I have an interesting problem:
I was given two boxes of reloaded 30-40 Krag cartridges with cast bullets, and I am leery about whoever loaded them. The fellow I got them from casually said "bring a brass rod with you because some of these are really light loads and the bullet might not leave the barrel". So I would like to pull the bullets and at least re-use the primed case.
With that in mind, I first tried an inertia bullet puller (hammer style) with no results - the bullet would not move.
When I used a bullet puller in my reloading press, it pulled the bullet - but NOT the gas check. It is still stuck in the case neck. You can see that the neck expander was too small for the cast bullet used.
Any ideas?? I really don't think I want to be drilling through it with a load of powder underneath, and I don't want to ruin the brass.
If nothing else, I will probably just shoot them in my Ruger #3 and watch for stuck bullets. At least that rifle should be able to take any over-charged cartridge better than my Springfield Krag (and has a shorter barrel.)
Thanks
I asked this over in the Experts forum also, but thought I'd put it here also.
I have an interesting problem:
I was given two boxes of reloaded 30-40 Krag cartridges with cast bullets, and I am leery about whoever loaded them. The fellow I got them from casually said "bring a brass rod with you because some of these are really light loads and the bullet might not leave the barrel". So I would like to pull the bullets and at least re-use the primed case.
With that in mind, I first tried an inertia bullet puller (hammer style) with no results - the bullet would not move.
When I used a bullet puller in my reloading press, it pulled the bullet - but NOT the gas check. It is still stuck in the case neck. You can see that the neck expander was too small for the cast bullet used.
Any ideas?? I really don't think I want to be drilling through it with a load of powder underneath, and I don't want to ruin the brass.
If nothing else, I will probably just shoot them in my Ruger #3 and watch for stuck bullets. At least that rifle should be able to take any over-charged cartridge better than my Springfield Krag (and has a shorter barrel.)
Thanks
Comments
I was wondering about shooting them with the gas check but no bullet. Might be a heck of a fireball out of the muzzle!
Report back if I'm wrong.