I'm not worried too much about it, because any brass that has gauging problems is going to become my test case for forming 6.5 Grendel from 7.62x39...
Made a New Primer Rod/Alarm
I assume the rod comes out of the primer hole in the cartridge, and is retained by the bullet.I appear to be failing my IQ test on how that works.
I appear to be failing my IQ test on how that works.
I appear to be failing my IQ test on how that works.
It’s real nice how the answers given so far tell you how the bullet could be attached to the rod, but not how the alarm goes off without the lever to hit the button.
It could be that you got a good batch, or that I pulled very unlucky.Still trying to figure out what is wrong with the RMR mystery junk brass. The double handful I’ve checked on my case gauge and OAL gauge checks out fine. Checking with a .310” FMJ it might be that the necks were sized to .308. I haven’t put calipers on any of the necks. But the base barely makes it in to the case mouth. Seems like it’ll seat, but might just need to be run through a bit to be neck sized.
I’ll definitely check every case before loading any of it, but really happy I picked up 500 cases pre-primed for ridiculously cheap. Sort of wishing I’d gotten 1k cases, but hell it’ll take me years to load and shoot the 100+500 I have as I only have an SKS in it and tons of steel cased still. Also only have 250 projectiles…so I’ll need to wait till .310/.311” bullets are something approaching available again.
I moved the lever since their are no primers in the tube so I don’t have to hear the alarm kinda common sense. Once you load your primers into the tub put the lever done and then the road no change to normal functionality
It could be that you got a good batch, or that I pulled very unlucky.
I am about halfway through the first bag, and I have a huge reject rate - probably 50%+. It's just a dog's breakfast of problems: primers not fully seated, case necks way too long (ie, case out of headspace by a LOT), shoulder angle off, a few cases unprimed, even a sad old Berdan-primed case (how they deprimed it, I have no idea). It looks SUSPICIOUSLY like many of these were accidentally run through a 308 sizer die many cases (pardon the pun). I double checked the case gauge against a real Russian round and it fit exactly as expected, so I don't think it's a tools problem.
I'd be real, real careful about using these. A few may be salvageable with a pass through the appropriate sizing die without a decapper, but I don't see how you fix "neck too long".
It’s real nice how the answers given so far tell you how the bullet could be attached to the rod, but not how the alarm goes off without the lever to hit the button.