Thread: Steel cases
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Old April 20, 2012, 06:20 PM   #3
Jim243
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I can't tell you what you should do, only what I did.

I have been running very low on 7.62x39 cases for the longest of times now. So when I found 50 beautiful cases laying on the ground at the range, I was in 7th heaven.

The problem with steel cases is that they are less forgiving than brass, so they tend to have head seperation and neck splits when used in a reload. That will not only give you a bad day, but a bad gun as well. Cases run about $35.00 per 100 while a new rifle will run $500.00 of more, in the case of an AR a lot more. So while the decession was hard to do, all those cases went into the trash. (it broke my heart to do that, but it was the only safe thing to do. They did NOT pass the magnet test)

Jim

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