I have a bucket full of brass that I have done THAT to. I squish them
with a pliers. I check all of my own brass (and shooting range "pick
up" brass), before I begin the reloading process, for interior cracks,
potential case head separation, cracks, and brass that been shortened
too much. (it stretches lengthwise after a few firings and has to be
reamed down back to original dimensions). This bucket is for recycling
down at the metals yard. Some yards require them to be crushed,
others don't. :-)
Smoke
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, David Legare <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> These are sufficiently out-of-round or flattened that they never could have been loaded in the first place. They are effectively ruined for reloading (which was one of our thoughts about them).
>
> --- On Thu, 1/7/10, Jerry Schaefer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: Jerry Schaefer <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: cartridges
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 1:42 PM
>> These may be blanks, for what purpose
>> remains to be seen.
>>
>> Jerry Schaefer
>>
>> ASM Affiliates, Inc.
>> 2034 Corte Del Nogal
>> Carlsbad, CA 92011
>> 760-804-5757 (office)
>> 760-804-5755 (fax)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>> Behalf Of David
>> Legare
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:53 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: cartridges
>>
>>
>> I have a large number of cartridges at a historic mine site
>> in southern New Mexico. The primary occupation of the
>> site is from around 1903 to 1911. These cartridges are
>> of a very wide variety of calibers. they were all
>> identifiable 30-30, 30-06, 44-70, 45, etc. The
>> question concerns their treatment. Virtually every one
>> of them was found crimped in almost exactly the same place
>> on the cartidge. Anyone have any idea what this
>> behavior is?
>>
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Smoke Pfeiffer
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a
shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. -- John
Adams
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