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Posted: 12/23/2012 6:18:37 PM EDT
I have a 1000 rounds of Gibbs 30-06 FMJ I bought years ago, and found out the bullet was set to deep causing dangerous pressures. I tried to sell these a few months ago with no bites (stated they would have to be taken apart and bullets re-seated). If I bought a bullet puller and removed the bullets to sell everything as components, would the bullets be damaged from the crimp. and make them unusable? From what I can see, it's not an actual crimp, just pressed in.
I think now would be a good time to try and sell as prices are thru the roof. These were not reloads, but sold as new ammo, made from recovered components.. Bought it in the late 90s I think, has MFS headstamp. Which I think is Hungary, or Nepal. Anyway, will the bullet be OK if I take them apart for components? |
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You could easily disassemble the ammunition, but 1000 rounds will not be fun with a kinetic puller. In fact, it will suck in a big way. The alternate is to pull them with a collet in a press.
If it turns out the crimp is a little tight, the remedy is to seat them a little deeper to break the crimp, then pull. Most likely you can't sell the propellant, and I'm really curious to find out if it's cordite. The bullets should be reasonably easy to sell. If the cases are Berdan primed, that will reduce their value and may be an obstacle to a sale. As for the pressure, seating a bullet deeper in a bottleneck case reduces the internal volume a trivial amount and I'll bet there is some other reason the ammunition is overpressure, most likely the powder selection or charge weight, or a combination of the bullet selected and charge weight. |
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Quoted: I have a 1000 rounds of Gibbs 30-06 FMJ I bought years ago, and found out the bullet was set to deep causing dangerous pressures. How did you determine the deep bullet seating was causing dangerous pressures, by firing them or just assuming? I've singled loaded 223 and 762x39 rounds all the time where the bullet has been pushed deeper into the case because of misfeed (bullet tip being pushed onto front lip of the magazine instead of being chambered). No ill affects. |
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I sold my Garand a few years ago, and so dug these out a few months ago, and to be able to explain what they were, I looked them up, and found one guy saying these were seated to deep and causing blown primers and flattened heads.
I checked mine and OAL was 3.16. And they are boxer primed. http://www.jouster.com/forums/showthread.php?31497-30-06-gibbs-ammo http://ingunowners.com/forums/ammunition_and_reloading/35161-gibbs_30_06_ammo.html Links made hot. AeroE |
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Sell them as bolt gun ammunition and include a comment in your ad that they are to hot for Garands.
If Richard Pries (first link above) ran his ammunition through a standard sizing die he shouldn't be surprised that will drop into three rifles. That is what he should expect, and not only that but the neck should rattle around inside the chamber. |
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