I am thinking particularly of .303 British. My SMLE is real hard on brass. I am wondering if there might be something wrong with it too. I have never seen any signs of it having loose headspace (no evidence of primers trying to back out) but I understand that most of these were bored pretty loose to increase their reliability. I am thinking that this is going to make shooting this thing much (even with reloading) a pretty rare thing.
Even with some of the once fired brass I had I noticed some bulges down around the area where the case head meets the hollow section of the casing. I threw those away, but if it is destroying my brass on the first and second firing, that is gonna get expensive.
I am using Winchester once fired brass that has been around for anywhere from 4 to 10 years. I never really shot it much before now and the box of handloads I shot last week were the first I have shot through it in about 5 years.
I am wondering if a different make of brass would stand up better than the Winchester stuff.
Thanks.
Even with some of the once fired brass I had I noticed some bulges down around the area where the case head meets the hollow section of the casing. I threw those away, but if it is destroying my brass on the first and second firing, that is gonna get expensive.
I am using Winchester once fired brass that has been around for anywhere from 4 to 10 years. I never really shot it much before now and the box of handloads I shot last week were the first I have shot through it in about 5 years.
I am wondering if a different make of brass would stand up better than the Winchester stuff.
Thanks.