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Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:09 am
by BrianTSmith99
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
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:15 am
by Junk Yard Dog
Pretty much all of my semi auto's beat the hell out of brass, I know my Chinese SKS dented up a few.
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:23 am
by martin08
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.
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:58 am
by Junk Yard Dog
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.
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:49 pm
by BrianTSmith99
Thanks guys! Sometimes I just worry on things too much
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:28 pm
by avenger
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
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:48 pm
by Junk Yard Dog
I hope you didn't burn the poor guy, or make him yell and send his rounds into the next guys target
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:43 pm
by Ironnewt
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.
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:31 am
by Junk Yard Dog
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.
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 7:22 am
by bunkysdad
Before adjusting my gas valve on the Hakim I couldn't find my brass!
Re: Spent cartridges have a bent rim. Normal?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:10 am
by Junk Yard Dog
Lucky you didn't bust the extractor and crack the bolt.