Thread: Case head separation imminent

What a timely post to come back home to after a hunting trip at the weekend!


Have reloaded for years without to many issues but at the weekend i fired a shot and extracted the head of the cartridge only.
The rest was jammed in the chamber, which was not a happy time with a bunch of tahr standing there looking at us and no functioning rifle!
Trudged a long way back to the hut and managed to pull the stuck case with a pull through.

Back up the hill and fired two more shots and was horrified to find cracks in the next two also.

The brass has only been fired two times, no head space issue in the rifle, load rechecked on the scales and dies set as per instructions also.

Ok, so from reading through the rest of this post , it seems the dies are also not set up properly and will be oversizing the case causing a headspace problem that is allowing the case to much expansion when firing??
The dies will be pushing the shoulder down to much?

Does this also mean all my resized brass will be ruined?

Rifle is a 7mm rem mag

Never had the issues before