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Posted: 2/12/2012 9:09:21 AM EDT
I've been stuffing primers in primer pockets for 30 years and have never seen this. Yesterday at the range folks left behind some shiny once fired brass - 20 pieces of Corbon headstamped 38 Special +P. I've got a bunch of 38 revolvers so put it to good use. I'm resizing it this morning and one case caught my eye. The primer pocket is just a hole. There is no web, there is no flash hole.  Corbon ammo is marketed as high end self defense ammo. This certainly makes one pause and reconsider. |
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Quoted: The inside is as I got it. And the 19 other pieces of brass are formed normally and I intend to load them up. So I don't think this was a training round, it just missed an important step in the manufacture of that case. Looks very strange. I too was wondering if they had made up non-lethal or training rounds, but that doesn't look right somehow. Was the inside that clean when you found it? It may be similar to that wax bullet theory if there was no carbon residue? |
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Quoted: Quoted: That case is set up for a 209 shotshell primer, used with wax bullet for inside training; no powder is used of course. sdshooter.............................. Wouldnt you have to recess the head of the case to fit the 209's rim? I used to shoot hot glue sticks out of a 1911 for a while. You take a hot glue stick, stuff it down into the case and cut it off at the case mouth. Use a LP primer. the flash hole gets drilled bigger, but not drilled out completely like that. |
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Quoted: Quoted: when you make millions of rounds of ammo each year you're bound to get a screw up or two. I once had a piece of brass that had a primer pocket but not the flashhole. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/dryflash3/Cases/P9270286.jpg Sometimes no flashole at all. No extra charge for the added brass!  |
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