I've been buying a lot of brass lately... this weekend I was processing ( decap & wet tumble & sort by headstamp ) 100 - 25-06 cases...
I usually dump the tumbler in a big bowl, & pluck them out 2 at a time, & shake any pins out, inspect that none are lodged in the flash hole, inspect & sort them...
last night, I was having trouble getting all the pins out of one particular case... finally got them out, & looked in side, & there was something in there ( good thing the inside of those cases were so shiny & clean )... took me a few minutes, & a dental pick, but I finally worked out a small red piece of plastic... on further inspection, it was a plastic about 1.25" long, red Dynamo label, that some one had folded in half, sticky side to sticky side, then rolled up, & put it in the case...
balled up like it was, it did not stop the pin from decapping, but if I had charged the case, likely one of a couple things could have happened... the powder could have pushed the "ball" to cover the flash hole, & cause a squib load, or it could have just taken up case capacity, & likely increased the pressure on that one cartridge...
just a reminder to always inspect those cases
it's likely the strangest thing I've found in a case todate... I couldn't read it, the pins must have worked the impressed label too much...
what is the strangest thing you've ever found in a case ???