gamestalker
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My DIL dropped of a bunch of range pick up brass a little while back, and in it was some S&B 38 spcl.. It all looked fine, in fact it didn't look like it had been loaded before, but who knows.
So I resized it, trimmed, and tumbled, and loaded it with the same long time usual Longshot +P load,125 gr. XTP, CCI-500's. I shot a couple hundred rounds, mixed brass, Winchester, RP, Federal, Speer, Peters, Starline, W-W, and some S&B.
When I got home, I found that several of the 20 or so pieces of S&B had split from just below the mouth, to just above the case head. The split pieces had an odd looking pattern, kind of like teeth on a gear, rather than a semi straight vertical line.
Rounds were fired from two different revolvers, and none of the other brass experienced any failures. All the loads extracted very easily, with just a light tap on the rod.
I've loaded a good deal of S&B and don't recall any issues before, so I'm thinking it was just a few bad pieces maybe. Or has anyone else had any unexplained failures with S&B.
GS
So I resized it, trimmed, and tumbled, and loaded it with the same long time usual Longshot +P load,125 gr. XTP, CCI-500's. I shot a couple hundred rounds, mixed brass, Winchester, RP, Federal, Speer, Peters, Starline, W-W, and some S&B.
When I got home, I found that several of the 20 or so pieces of S&B had split from just below the mouth, to just above the case head. The split pieces had an odd looking pattern, kind of like teeth on a gear, rather than a semi straight vertical line.
Rounds were fired from two different revolvers, and none of the other brass experienced any failures. All the loads extracted very easily, with just a light tap on the rod.
I've loaded a good deal of S&B and don't recall any issues before, so I'm thinking it was just a few bad pieces maybe. Or has anyone else had any unexplained failures with S&B.
GS