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    Posted: Jul 19 2020 at 6:03pm
Under the heading of safety:

No matter how careful you think you are, things happen. I reload and call myself checking my brass. How this happened is beyond me. Out shooting the other day and I am very cautious. This time it paid off. I usually note the bolt rotation almost every shot. I was ready to pull the trigger when I noticed the bolt lock-up looked funny. I had about 2/3rds. rotation and shut down when I noticed it. Just figured it was a fat case after I looked at it. When I returned home I measured it at 1.301 in length. I have never measured a piece of fired brass I reload longer than about 1.287-88. How it got in there I have no idea. This particular carbine head spaces at 1.296. I don’t know if the bridge would have caught the tang or not, but I am glad I never pulled the trigger to see.

Never do I automatically just start shooting ammo out of a new box without checking. Never do I reload without checking every round....or so I thought.
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Thank you for this post! I needed a reminder. Up until now all my carbines head spaced at 1.295 or more. I've never really worried about an ammo caused out-of-battery discharge. The Winchester I just fixed head spaces right at 1.290". Just barely closes on a "GO" gauge. I will be paying more attention to it in the future.
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What brass was it? I just loaded hundreds of rounds and all the brass was untrimmed, once or twice fired and .003 to .005 short. Multiple manufacturers.
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Good catch.  I also reload all my carbine ammo and other calibers.  It requires attention to details and your soul attention and yet you can still catch a mistake and wonder what the heck happened.  Glad you caught it avoided a possible injury and or rifle damage.
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Originally posted by David Milisock David Milisock wrote:

What brass was it? I just loaded hundreds of rounds and all the brass was untrimmed, once or twice fired and .003 to .005 short. Multiple manufacturers.

The long piece in question was stamped A USA (ARMSCOR). I found another A USA at close to 1.30. I am not exactly ready to blame the brass just yet. Some of the A USA measures closer to 1.286-87.

I need to get a bit more scientific here. I was testing 2-3 different loads and projectile weights. None of the loads exceeded maximum posted data. 

Regardless of how they came out after reloading. I should have caught the long brass b4 it got into the carbine and I didn’t. 
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I actually have a carbine with lose head space that will digest longer rounds. I continue to fool with improving it, but it doesn’t seem to care....just shoots-on. Maybe if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
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