Magnum Wheel Man
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still going through & organizing my stuff after getting my walk in gun safe room completed...
in this case, I'm going through & sorting 30-06 cases... I opened a 50 cal ammo can full of more than once fired military cases... these came from my FIL... many of them have the edges of the case head peened... I've never run into anything that looks like that in my normal shooting & reloading... FIL had several bolt actions, a semi auto Remington Woodsman Carbine, & a Garand in 30-06... my experience with case abuse with semi autos, has always been case mouths or dented bodies from contact during ejection... but then I thought about the "thumb buster" feature of the Garand & thought perhaps it's from the heavy bolt spring stripping them from the clip & driving them home...
the peening is on the edges of the case head, I'm not seeing sharp edges or the look of ripped brass, like might come from the extractor... any thoughts ???
some cases have 2 peened areas on the case head, but the case looks in all other areas like it's fully serviceable... I can't see any reason not to reload them, other than possible extraction issues ???
BTW... these will go back in the Garand since I'm using commercial brass in my other rifles...
in this case, I'm going through & sorting 30-06 cases... I opened a 50 cal ammo can full of more than once fired military cases... these came from my FIL... many of them have the edges of the case head peened... I've never run into anything that looks like that in my normal shooting & reloading... FIL had several bolt actions, a semi auto Remington Woodsman Carbine, & a Garand in 30-06... my experience with case abuse with semi autos, has always been case mouths or dented bodies from contact during ejection... but then I thought about the "thumb buster" feature of the Garand & thought perhaps it's from the heavy bolt spring stripping them from the clip & driving them home...
the peening is on the edges of the case head, I'm not seeing sharp edges or the look of ripped brass, like might come from the extractor... any thoughts ???
some cases have 2 peened areas on the case head, but the case looks in all other areas like it's fully serviceable... I can't see any reason not to reload them, other than possible extraction issues ???
BTW... these will go back in the Garand since I'm using commercial brass in my other rifles...