Gouged case

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I have a fairly deeply gouged piece of brass I'm wondering if I should go ahead and load up. It's a once fired 7.62x39 necked down and fire formed to 6.5 Grendel. I'm thinking the gouge was there before I fire formed it. I've been debating with myself whether I should go ahead and load it up or toss it in the trash. Probably better safe than sorry, but the little devil in my ear wants me to shoot it like that. What do you guys think?
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Yup… I’ll also pass on touching off a damaged case I’m expecting to contain roughly 52,000 psi situated about six inches from the ol’ nose. :what:

Pitch it.

Stay safe.
 
Ok, so a resounding NO! That darned little devil on my shoulder sure is an evil feller. To the trash it is! If I had a spare barrel I wasn't all that fond of I would probably give it a whirl, but I do not. I've lots of other cases that have weird dings and scrapes but this one is definitely the worst. I don't know what the Russian hardware guys do at the range, but that brass in particular is always pretty rough. Thanks guys!
 
One case only? Can't tell from pic so it's hard to determine when/where it happened, but as noted above either trash/brass bucket of on a shelf near your bench to remind you to inspect your brass (and tools) often...
 
Starting in the middle and going forward would happen during extraction. I've had some AR's where the barrel extension nut had some nasty burrs. Had to remove the barrel on a couple to get to it, in order to polish out with a cartex wheel.
 
any brass I can't determine as good - in about 10 seconds max, defaults to the junk brass container
 
Wow, y'all are a nervous bunch.

I would load and shoot that. Of course I also shoot brass that doesn't fit the chamber (we call it fireforming), brass that's been loaded by some nameless minimum wage noob (we call it factory ammo), and brass loaded without benefit of published data (we call it load development).

For certain, if the case splits that far up, it won't leak back with a full pressure charge. The brass seals to the chamber quite well up there. A low pressure charge (that doesn't seal) might leak.

But I'll bet it doesn't split. I've fed my M1 lots of brass dinged and gouged that badly and worse, and never had one die for anything but loose pockets.
 
I get all sorts of crazy marks off of Garand empties and I scrap them. Outside of safety, I've found marks like that often time will change POI.
 
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