Double check everything.....

Dustbowl · Jul 8, 2019

Loading some .41 Mag today and found this lil’ fella. Brand new box of star line brass. I had already trimmed, and sized. I use a hand primer and this one felt different. Glad I caught it, my Blackhawk probably wouldn’t have appreciated it.

Hooda Thunkit · Jul 8, 2019

Send a pic of that to Starline. See what they say.

In the end, it's just a piece of brass, but I always like seeing the mistakes a machine can make.

sparkyv · Jul 8, 2019

Eek! Good catch, Dustbowl.

kcofohio · Jul 8, 2019

Hooda Thunkit said:
Send a pic of that to Starline. See what they say.

In the end, it's just a piece of brass, but I always like seeing the mistakes a machine can make.

I agree. If you had one, there could be more. I would think Starline would take interest in how or why this happened.

Walkalong · Jul 8, 2019

Looks like a ring of brass shaved from the case mouth made when trimming. Bigger than I have seen though. Weird.

forty_caliber · Jul 8, 2019

This looks like a manufacturing defect for sure. From the photos, that particular case's head is thinner than the one next to it.

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lightman · Jul 8, 2019

Glad you caught it. It pays to look close at everything. Over the years I have found lots of defects in new brass. Wrinkles, splits, cracks, even one without a flash hole! Not Starline, but a variety of others.

Blue68f100 · Jul 8, 2019

I've seen that during machining, most will just slide off.

Will it slide off?

Dustbowl · Jul 8, 2019

Yeah the ring came off easy, as I tried to show in the pictures but the problem is it came from the case rim. It mics .025 smaller than a normal case (.055) so it for sure will mess with headspace and extraction.

Walkalong · Jul 8, 2019

Ouch, missed that in the first set of pics. yep, they let a bad one sneak by.

VAReloader · Jul 8, 2019

Hope you have the lot # to send them with the photo. I had a Hornady 22-250 case with no flash hole. Sadly I had already tossed the package.

mdi · Jul 8, 2019

No big deal. I have not had any bad brass from Starline and rarely hear of one faux pas out of the millions of cases they manufacture. You probably could have fired it and never noticed anything...

Legionnaire · Jul 8, 2019

So how a ring gets cut from the top of the rim is puzzling to me ...

Bandit67 · Jul 8, 2019

I recently had a Starline .44 mag case with a messed up rim. The rim was the same diameter as the rest of the case so it looked like a rimless. It came in a new 100 count bag that had 101 cases in it. I couldn't complain since I still got my 100.

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