Thread: Time for the bin?

Newbie question time, is it time to bin this brass? Was just prepping this tonight and noticed it on a few of my 4 to 5 x fired brass ,no annealing, fired in my 22-250

what lube and how much are you using has that been sized

Not yet sized, RCBS lube that came with my rockchucker kit. I roll on the pad and then wipe some around the neck with my finger tip. Try to keep off the shoulder

Ok haven't seen that before looked a bit like a lube dent I'd try sizing it and see if it splits

could also be something stuck in the chamber........

What he said ^^

That's what I was thinking as well but thought youd see a mark where it had been dragged across it chambering and extracting it but check and clean it

Some had it in more than one spot around the neck and different sizes of dent. I'll size some and see how they come out.
The worst one I found late last night was split.

If it were a chunk of crud in the neck portion of the chamber, they'd all look much the same. Weird alright.

So the necks looked perfectly normal before you fired them?

Check the inside of your sizing die as well as your riflechamber. I had an issue similar and it turned out to be a compresed thread of cleaning cloth jammed against the wall.

Yup, pretty sure it will be cotton thread as have had exactly the same thing happened to me with the same symptoms. The thread shifts around in the chamber, which is why the dents are not consistent. Any brass that is not split but has just a small dent, will re-form to the chamber next time you fire it and you will not even be able to see where the dent was.

Before sizing

After sizing


Think I'll just bin them, given they've seen some action

@charliehorse, any reason you don't anneal at least just the necks?

Even a candle flame will significantly de-stress the brass.

I've taken to just stand the cases up in lines on my small lathe bed (heat sink for the bases) and move a blowtorch across them, 5 secs each to the base of the neck. Very quickly done.

No particular reason @Cordite still new to the game, its on the list at some stage though

Apart from the split neck (throw away) i would and do continue to reload cases with small blemishes like those.