Is this brass dangerous or not???

[Rogue Ram]

Hello all, haven't been around for a while...but.....finally...good weather, reloading time...and...

So I grabbed 200 pieces of "once fired" Remington .270 brass from a "trusted" seller locally where I am. I did not have my glasses with me that day, and grabbed the bag, taking his word all was well.

Today I pulled the brass out of the tumbler. What I found on each case was a perfect circle...at the top, near the shoulder. It is PUSHED out, NOT scratched. To confirm, both by feel and sight, it is pushed out. I hacksawed a case in half near the circle, and used a sharp instrument and sure enough, these things are pushed from the INSIDE OUT. I checked his primers....they are puddled big time.  Circle is about, well, 270 caliber. IMHO this is a chamber defect of some sort. Same guy...as I recall...sold off 2 savages recently off a website I hangout out now and then.

Is this stuff dangerous??  My guess is yes it is.  Its pushed out just enough to see the circle and feel with a sharp tool or your fingernail.

Let me know.

thanks
RR

[LaOtto222]

Personally - I do not think I would use them. If you full length size them, they would work, but like I said I would not use them. I can't believe there would be such a defect in a chamber - perfectly round that size. At first I thought it was small and on the shoulder. That would be from a vent hole in a die, but being on the body- I just do not know. Sounds like they may have been fired in a test chamber - maybe where a pressure load cell would have been. It seems like there would have been extraction problems; with the case sticking out like that. Good Luck and Good Shooting

[Graybeard]

I would assume them fatally flawed and toss them so no one else is likely to find and try to use them or alternately take them back and demand a refund in which case he is likely to pawn them off on someone else who might not know better and try to use them.

[Lloyd Smale]

brass is to cheap to risk it. Toss it.

[ironglow]

  I wouldn't use it either..

[wild willy]

If you don't take em back damage them so they can't be used. I keep a pair of pliers on my bench when I find a bad case I squeeze it shut no chance of it getting mixed in with good cases

[mdi]

Would any auto feed gun cause the rings on the case?

[necchi]

Would any auto feed gun cause the rings on the case?

I'm a range member of a local range literally out the back door of DPMS, there are a ton of guy's shooting ar's out there.
I don't use range pick-up unless I've seen the gent open a new box and he leaves it lay, plenty of handloaders out there so ya never know the load count.
Anyway's the typical damage from the ar's, is a ding in the side of the case, never seen a bulge as described.

At a $1.40 for scrap brass, it pays to save a bucket full then take it in. An ice cream pail full is about 11#, 4 ice cream pails too fill a bucket,,,that's over $60!!