Tavor beats up brass?

[Madball6]

Got a Tavor about 6 months ago, slapped an Eotech xps on it, hated the trigger, put in a geissele trigger pack, and now it shoots great. Only issue I have now is as a reloader, i'm pretty disappointed at how this rifle treats my brass. Anyone else notice their Tavor mangling their brass? I mean they're still resizable with some extra oomph, but im starting to wonder if I should just run steel cased. Opinions?

-Madball

[skizzums]

my 300 blackout bends the case mouths in, the brass hits the shell defector in just the right way that it lands directly on the side of the mouth. very annoying. two solutions to a very simple problem, slightly.....like really slightly file your extractor where it grabs the rim and change the angle a couple degrees. my solution was much easier and much more ghetto, a small stick on wood floor protector thingy that goes on the bottom of chair legs etc., put it on the shell deflector. problem solved. there are other more complicated solutions, like spring weights and gas adjustments, but this was easier, and unnoticeable unless you looked closely.

[T. O'Heir]

Steel cases aren't reloadable. However, all semi's tend to be hard on brass.
M1's bash the case mouths, AR cases need a GPS locator, etc., etc. Really isn't an issue though. Sizer die usually fixes all of it. Case mouths get opened a tick by using needle nosed pliers as a 'pre-expander'.

[skizzums]

that's true, I have been amazed at some the seemingly unsalvageable brass that goes into the sizing a mangled mess and comes out the bottom a usable in-spec cartridge case..