Thread: Something I'd Not Seen Before

Greetings All,
I've just been out in the shed prepping some .223 cases for a batch of handloads and I spotted this. A body crack. The case is a R-P case that has been fired 5 times and has never been full length resized. It was fired 4 times in my Rem VSSF until I experienced some neck cracks. The survivors were neck annealed and loaded for my T3 which has a slightly larger chamber so did not need FL sizing. The case neck is still fine. In almost 50 years of handloading this is the first body crack I have encountered. All the other cases seem to be fine.
Being a hands on type of chap I do all my initial case prep including inspection, depriming, cleaning etc using hand tools as I think this gives me time to pick up any faults. To be honest I was not looking for body cracks but managed to spot it any way. Must be the new reading spec's.
Regards Grandpamac.