Interesting failure

[bronczilla]

Ruger Mini-14, .223 brass police reloads. The casing broke in half when ejected and a new round was fed in and jammed. The primer was hit and didnt fire.

[bronczilla]

 

[Heredoggydoggy]

I found some empty 223 brass at a shooting range that looked like that--half cases, and some whole cases with a visible line around the case half way up.  I cut the whole cases lengthways with a Dremel wheel, and they were ready to separate at the line.  First time I had seen case erosion like that.  Erosion and separation at the case head is normal for a case reloaded too many times, but not half way up the tube.  My conclusion was that the loads were way too HOT.  Either loaded way over Max, or loaded with the wrong powder for the data.  The primers in the fired rounds showed signs of high pressure also.  The fact that the gun didn't blow up is a testament to the strength of the Ruger guns.  I wouldn't shoot any more of those rounds.

[Skyvalhunter]

not a good thing possibly reloaded too many times

[mebco09]

Any chance that those were 5.56 instead of .223?

[MP123]

There's a visable line on that whole one that looks like it's about ready to go too.

I hope you didn't buy 5,000 of those things... 

[twinners]

Is that line the back end of the front half of the one that broke in half?  Probably lucky the second bullet did not fire.

[bronczilla]

Yes, its the other half of the casing, very lucky the round did not fire. As you can tell its a lve round that the primer was bearly hit and yes they were .223.