Bullshot
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I took my 30/30 to the range the other day and also scrounged up 6 rounds of old vintage ammo I had laying around. I actually forget now whether it was remington or winchester head stamps (threw the brass away at the range) but it was 50+ year old ammo, or maybe quite a bit more, from my grandfather's era that was sitting in a bullet collection and I just wanted to use up. I shot a bunch of modern stuff w/no incident and then loaded the old shells. I smelled a LOT of burnt powder smell after firing them (all went BANG without a hitch) but when I inspected the spent brass, 4 had badly split the necks and one had split in two locations.
Is this normal of old brass? And if so, why? I'm glad it's gone at any rate and now I WON'T be firing my 1930's vintage 8mm mauser ammo even though I've used some before (about 30 years ago) and I'd like to think it would be fine.
Is this normal of old brass? And if so, why? I'm glad it's gone at any rate and now I WON'T be firing my 1930's vintage 8mm mauser ammo even though I've used some before (about 30 years ago) and I'd like to think it would be fine.