Any way to save these ?
I was loading some 45/70 tonight, and lost concentration, so 2 of my cases got damaged when the bullet was not completely straight...
Anyone have some special tricks to get these back into usable shape ?
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Any way to save these ?
I was loading some 45/70 tonight, and lost concentration, so 2 of my cases got damaged when the bullet was not completely straight...
Anyone have some special tricks to get these back into usable shape ?
A Photo would help with diagnosis and or give us a bit of amusement
A Photo would help with diagnosis and or give us a bit of amusement. Here's one of my better efforts as an example
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Originally Posted by ebf
You could just cut them down past the damage and still use them.
Too late : the "evidence" has been destroyed :P
One case had a slight fold/kink on about 1/4 of the mouth. Managed to save that one.
The other was well and truly graunched. Krinkle all he way around, and a severe nick along 1/4 of the mouth. Consigned to the bin.
What I ended up doing was to use a bit of round tool steel as a backer, and the lightly panel beat the case into mostly round shape - at least until it fit into the FL sizing die. Will give it a mild fireforming load of TrailBoss, and should be good to go again...