May I have the next dents?
Mikee Loxxer--SKS's & AK's are
notoriously hard on cases. I reload for my SKS and can tell how many times a given case has been fired by counting the old dents in it! The SKS's extractor also tries to rip the extractor rim off the case at each firing, too, so the rims get bent & dented.
If I discarded all the dented cases I'd reload zero cases, which would sort of end any saving I might get in reloading.
It being an autoloader, I never load it to near the maximum reccommended charge, which may be saving me all sorts of grief.
Fortunately, an SKS is not fussy about its fodder. I've fed mine back
all its dented cases, no matter how badly dented, and it power-irons all the dents back out in firing--then puts a new dent in the case in ejecting!
No failures to feed, either.
My big problem is that the SKS is so enthusiastic, and random, about ejection. Somewhere to the right is as consistent as it gets, except for the ones that go straight forward or straight up. The recovery rate on cases runs about 90% for me on a good day. The rest just disappear into a time warp or something.
But as for feeding--heh, no problem!
