Why you should check all your rounds.

[Babaganoosh 192]

After I load my ammo I go thru all of it. I sit on the couch and while watching tv I give it a quick look and then pop it in a Dillon case gauge, then dump it into a plastic bin to be put into ammo boxes later on. Every once in awhile I find a bad round. I haven't come across one in at least a few thousand but I did catch this one today. It's a Remington 9mm case.

 

Cell phone doesn't have a macro mode so it's a tad blurry.

 

 

[Old School 611]

+1 I use this too. Every round chambers http://www.egwguns.com/chamber-checkers/

[PeteF 1,044]

This is why I sort my pistol brass by headstamp after tumbling.

It makes me put my hand on every case. I have found a few case that look like that ome.

 

[AverageJoe 95]

Yikes...How many times has that one been (re)loaded?

[tony357 386]

I have had that with only one reloading some cases are thin on one side.

[Babaganoosh 192]

It could have been reloaded to 9 major at some point in it's life. I've gotten a lot of brass from uspsa matches

[AverageJoe 95]

Yikes...How many times has that one been (re)loaded?

Interesting...Is there a guideline on what the case thickness should be at all points?

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

Since I load on a single stage RockChucker, brass like this rears its ugly head during the "belling" process

The upstroke force is much less than what is required for a good piece of brass

 

I recently found some .45acp brass split this way, which surprised me due to the low pressure of that caliber

Just deprime and reuse the primer on a practice round

Split brass into the recycle box

[Col. Mortimer 11]

+1 I use this too. Every round chambers http://www.egwguns.c...amber-checkers/

 

I agree. The case gauge is the final check. My friend caught a .38 Special with a cracked case this way. If you shake a container of brass, you can hear a cracked case because it jingles like a bell. It's hard to describe but you know the sound when you hear it.

[zoid 24]

I usually catch that when the casing goes into the shell plate.

 

This is another benefit of boxing your ammo cause you pick

up each round and give a very quick look over.

 

I catch tiled prmiers, crushed primers, and other off spec stuff

when doing this.