I found about 100 Remington 38spl cases at my club the other night and thought i hit the jackpot but I've hit a conundrum.
Several months ago i purchased startline brass from midway and noticed the case lengths were all over the place so i trimmed each one to the shortest I had but still within SAMMI spec. I can feel the size die and the flare die with the starline but when I ran the 38spl Remington's in the size die i didn't feel the resistance i usually do. I then noticed that when I would size the Remington's they would grow about 3k and all over the place in OAL by about 2-3k. I double checked the calipers with a known length and they are spot on.
Now comes the good one-seeing how i had to trim about 7k off the starline to get uniform brass i did so with about 10 of the Remington's and when i put them in the flare die there is no resistance whatsoever. they are being flare because i made a dummy round with one and i could seat the bullet a few thousandths. This brass also feels very soft when i was trimming the 10 pieces the trimmer would just eat right through it like a hot knife through butter. i found about 3 Winchesters also and you could feel the resistance in the trimmer and then die.
could this just be very, very soft brass and I'm not feeling it? A few of them looked a little off so they got the pliers and scrap bucket treatment and even when smashing them they felt very soft.
what would cause this?
Several months ago i purchased startline brass from midway and noticed the case lengths were all over the place so i trimmed each one to the shortest I had but still within SAMMI spec. I can feel the size die and the flare die with the starline but when I ran the 38spl Remington's in the size die i didn't feel the resistance i usually do. I then noticed that when I would size the Remington's they would grow about 3k and all over the place in OAL by about 2-3k. I double checked the calipers with a known length and they are spot on.
Now comes the good one-seeing how i had to trim about 7k off the starline to get uniform brass i did so with about 10 of the Remington's and when i put them in the flare die there is no resistance whatsoever. they are being flare because i made a dummy round with one and i could seat the bullet a few thousandths. This brass also feels very soft when i was trimming the 10 pieces the trimmer would just eat right through it like a hot knife through butter. i found about 3 Winchesters also and you could feel the resistance in the trimmer and then die.
could this just be very, very soft brass and I'm not feeling it? A few of them looked a little off so they got the pliers and scrap bucket treatment and even when smashing them they felt very soft.
what would cause this?