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I'm going Bob Ross on this and calling that a happy little mess up. You learned not to set your seater so low in a seat/crimp die...Cheap lesson learned.
 
I have had a few like that myself.......(although I do not take pictures - too embarrassing!)
 
Tired and was not paying attention one time and I tried to resize/decap my thumb.
It was apparently happy the way it was before being "resized" as it talked to me for hours reminding me it did not want to be resized.:eek:

PS: I am sure I am the only one who has ever done this;)
 
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I've had some opps seating and crimping .357 and .44 mag without the RCBS supplied spacer washer. I load .38 and 44 spl and my dies are adjusted for those cartridges when I forget the washer for magnum cases in the bell/flare or seat/crimp step it makes a mess of the brass.
 
I have done the same thing the OP did.

I expanded a .45 Colt case with a .45 ACP expander once. It did not work out well. One of those, what the heck, how did I do that, moments.

That -06 case is wild. :)
 
Englishmn said:
Use a impact puller, I did same thing with ss pins got them all apart no damage.
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Or, just sort them before tumbling. You have to sort them one way or another, might as well do it where any and all damage is avoided. That's what I do now.

...it's astonishing how hard those shell chunks get packed in there.
 
I dry tumble 38 special with 45ACP & 44 Brass all the time. I used to separate them but( I think It was Walkalong who posted) if you tumble different size brass put the larger brass in the media and run the tumbler for a few minute's then put the smaller brass in after the larger brass is full of media they stay separated. So far it has worked for me.
 
I prep handgun brass and have them ready to load or just sized and expanded. I put 50 rounds to a plastic box and label it. Some time ago I grabbed a box of 9mm, set them in my loading tray, and started charging them. After about a dozen I noticed some powder on the tray. I got a box that I hadn't primed. Now I label them what caliber they are and if they are primed I make sure to put that right below the caliber.
 
DLrocket89 said:
I tumbled 9mm and 45ACP in crushed walnuts. Had to pull apart about 100 pairs like this with a pair of needlenose pliers, had to throw out the 9mm because I mauled them taking them out of the 45...
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I have read that you can successfully tumble different sizes like .45acp & 9mm ... IF ... you first put in the larger brass and let vibrate-to-full before adding in the smaller cases.

Never tried it, though ... :)
 
Jack B. said:
I dry tumble 38 special with 45ACP & 44 Brass all the time. I used to separate them but( I think It was Walkalong who posted) if you tumble different size brass put the larger brass in the media and run the tumbler for a few minute's then put the smaller brass in after the larger brass is full of media they stay separated. So far it has worked for me.
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It works well, Reloader Fred told me about it.
 
If you switch from vibratory to SS tumbling you learn after the first time not to tumble cases that fit inside each other.

Here is a 38 with a little too much flare, a 9 that tried to be a .40, and a .41 that snuck in with the .44's. IMG_20180418_184405.jpg
 
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