Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?

BrianTSmith99 · Post by **BrianTSmith99** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:09 am

Hey!

Newbie question... I shot my Yugo SKS yesterday, and brought one of the spent cases home to sit on my desk to look at.

So I LOOKED at it and the thing has a bend where the bullet was. So it is kind of "D" shaped with the flat part being about 0.3 inches. Is that a common thing? "Nature of the beast"? Or something bad?

I got a "No Go" headspace gauge and it passed that. I guess this may be a different question, but has been knocking around in my head... Should I try a "Go" gauge also? I got Go/NoGo/Field for the Mosins, but the SKS were pricier and then they come in American and European and the more I read the more confused I got. Any thoughts on which gauges to get?

Thanks guys!

Brian

Post by **Junk Yard Dog** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:15 am

Pretty much all of my semi auto's beat the hell out of brass, I know my Chinese SKS dented up a few.

martin08 · Post by **martin08** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:23 am

The dent on the casing neck is perfectly normal. Nearly half of all the thousands of SKS rounds that I have fired will have a dent the neck. Some guns/rounds do it more than others.

Post by **Junk Yard Dog** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:58 am

Worst offender I have is the Hakim, closely followed by the Garand. Beats the hell out of the brass, I found out the Garand ( one of them) was tossing it so hard that they were bouncing off a rock nearby and denting themselves that way.

BrianTSmith99 · Post by **BrianTSmith99** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:49 pm

Thanks guys! Sometimes I just worry on things too much

avenger · Post by **avenger** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:28 pm

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Worst offender I have is the Hakim, closely followed by the Garand. Beats the hell out of the brass, I found out the Garand ( one of them) was tossing it so hard that they were bouncing off a rock nearby and denting themselves that way.

I accidentally bounced a few mosin shells off my buddy recently..he was prone shooting a 22 and i was crouch shooting the mosin...kept hitting his back haha

Post by **Junk Yard Dog** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:48 pm

I hope you didn't burn the poor guy, or make him yell and send his rounds into the next guys target

Ironnewt · Post by **Ironnewt** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:43 pm

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Worst offender I have is the Hakim, closely followed by the Garand. Beats the hell out of the brass, I found out the Garand ( one of them) was tossing it so hard that they were bouncing off a rock nearby and denting themselves that way.

I had a H&K 91 with a fluted chamber. That thing ripped them out , dinged the brass on the ejection port and then threw them every where. the ones you could find could be reloaded about 1/2 the time. Theother half was just too tore up.

Post by **Junk Yard Dog** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:31 am

I remember that about the H&K 91, it was a popular semi auto in the 90's, friend had one, half the time I couldn't even find the brass.

Post by **bunkysdad** » Sat May 05, 2012 7:22 am

Before adjusting my gas valve on the Hakim I couldn't find my brass!

Post by **Junk Yard Dog** » Sat May 05, 2012 8:10 am

Lucky you didn't bust the extractor and crack the bolt.

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