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To start off: I know that you are not supposed to reload steel cases, and if successful, I would not have fired the case. I was more so curious about how the case behaved, so I wanted to do some tests to understand.
I took a case that I picked up after a nice day shooting on Saturday and lubed it up and ran it through my FL die expecting the case to crack or have the neck deform. To my surprise, I actually bent my decapping pin instead. I guess I will need to run to Sportsmans and get a new pin.
From what I can see inside the case, the flash hole seems to be smaller than a regular flash hole which prevented me from depriming the case. But on an interesting note, the case didn't crack as I thought it might. However, I did try seating a bullet in the case and the neck tension was pretty weak and I was able to pull the bullet out with my fingers.
Now I understand why this is frowned upon.....
I took a case that I picked up after a nice day shooting on Saturday and lubed it up and ran it through my FL die expecting the case to crack or have the neck deform. To my surprise, I actually bent my decapping pin instead. I guess I will need to run to Sportsmans and get a new pin.
From what I can see inside the case, the flash hole seems to be smaller than a regular flash hole which prevented me from depriming the case. But on an interesting note, the case didn't crack as I thought it might. However, I did try seating a bullet in the case and the neck tension was pretty weak and I was able to pull the bullet out with my fingers.
Now I understand why this is frowned upon.....