Hawk
Well-Known Member
Okay I admit it, I'm an idiot.
I loaded some 7.62 x40 Wilson Tactical rounds for fire forming with a 162 grain gas check pc'ed bullet.
I had a fire forming load that was 21.3 grains of AA1680 thatt would just cycle the action, eject the round and pick up the next round that I use for fire forming brass.
I had a batch of PC'ed bullets that had been double-coated and had to be seated 0.005" deeper so I reduce powder charge by 0.8 of a grain to 20.5 grains. I thought the load might not even cycle the action, but that would be okay. The first three rounds gave me signs of pressure, flattened primers, so I brought the rest of them back home to pull the bullets and reload them.
As I was pulling the bullets with an inertia puller, I wound up getting a few gas checks stuck in the neck. I went to a bullet puller in my rock chucker II press and I had the same problem.
I now have 22 cases with gas checks stuck in the neck that I cannot figure out how to get out. I don't care about the primers, the powder or the gas checks but would like to salvage the cases since they are handmade and a pain to make it at that.
Any ideas on how I can get these gas checks out without destroying the case or blowing myself up?
I loaded some 7.62 x40 Wilson Tactical rounds for fire forming with a 162 grain gas check pc'ed bullet.
I had a fire forming load that was 21.3 grains of AA1680 thatt would just cycle the action, eject the round and pick up the next round that I use for fire forming brass.
I had a batch of PC'ed bullets that had been double-coated and had to be seated 0.005" deeper so I reduce powder charge by 0.8 of a grain to 20.5 grains. I thought the load might not even cycle the action, but that would be okay. The first three rounds gave me signs of pressure, flattened primers, so I brought the rest of them back home to pull the bullets and reload them.
As I was pulling the bullets with an inertia puller, I wound up getting a few gas checks stuck in the neck. I went to a bullet puller in my rock chucker II press and I had the same problem.
I now have 22 cases with gas checks stuck in the neck that I cannot figure out how to get out. I don't care about the primers, the powder or the gas checks but would like to salvage the cases since they are handmade and a pain to make it at that.
Any ideas on how I can get these gas checks out without destroying the case or blowing myself up?