Now what do I do with it??

[George Denys]

Hi folks, As my other post said, It seems as though my 7-30 waters that I bought used has ALOT of head space. Upon examining my once fired brass I found one of the cases had just about seperated!! About half of the 20 factory rounds had pushed back the primers. the other half had streched to fill the chamber and half of those started showing the tell tale bright ring about one third of the way back. One of those had a crack 90% around. I cut it down the side with a dremell and sure enough it was about to let go. This is a real bummer as I cannot aford (right now)to go and buy another barrel. It's also a real shame as the barrel was shooting good. The problem seems to stem from the fact that the recess for the rim seems too deep. The brass seems to only fill two thirds of the recess leaving a space between the end of the barrel and the face of the brass. ( I hope I said that right) I am no newbi to reloading, only to odd ball problems like this. Any sugestions?? Re-chamber?? Thanks, George

[George Denys]

P.S. My rim thickness is .054" My chamber rim recess depth is .070-.072" depending upon were I measure it.

[tlyne]

First thing I would do would be to send gun & barrel   back to T/C. I would explained the problem. Call first. T/C products have a life time warranty.  Twyman

[Tad Houston]

Hi George,
Heres what i would try. Get some 30-30 brass and neck it down making a new shoulder. Start long, and keep trying the brass in the chamber till the action will just lock up on it, then go another 1/8th turn on the die. now you will be headspacing on the shoulder and not the rim- the way it should be in a contender. Fire form and you will create a shoulder where it should be without streching the brass.

Hope this makes sense

[Curtis]

You got some good advise and now you have two options.  If you go with Tad's suggestion though you won't be able to use factory ammo.  No big loss in my opinion because I like pointy bullets.  I have formed a couple hundred rounds just the way Tad described and it is easy as pie.  If the option of shooting factory ammo is important to you, then I'd follow up with TC and see if they will make it good.

Curtis

[George Denys]

I took Tad's advice as I only will handload for it. I started by annealing 30-30 cases (5) and then sizing until it would just close. Next came 30 gns of 2460 and a pulled 120 gn bullet from the now useless factory ammo. Bang, it worked. When you now insert the fired brass into the barrel (after it is off the frame) the brass sits flush with the barrel face. This looks like it could be a better deal than headspacing on the rim. I'm a learning something new each day. Thank you to all that helped. You saved me a lot of aggravation with the factory. George

[Tad Houston]

Glad to hear it george. I learned that trick right here on GBO- aint the internet great!