I have about 1000 40 S&W rounds that were loaded too low powered to cycle my sig 226 so I'm getting ready to pull the bullets and put in new powder and reseat. My question is, Can I reseat the bullets without resizing the cases or do I need to resize the cases again to get the right bullet tension.
Reloading "PULLED BULLET" casings
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Personally . . . I'd suggest switching out to a lighter recoil spring set in your SIG, and using these for practice. Brownell's will carry these, as well as Midway. Return to the standard factory spring when you're done, or want to shoot standard ammo. The reduced power recoil spring is just $7.99, and the very thought of both pulling, and then reloading 1K+ rounds just gives me glazed eyes and a 1000 yard stare. Only way to do that without its being a tremendous pain in the ass, is to have someone else do it.
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Yea I had the same idea as you guys and thats what I was going to do untill I went to the range one afternoon to shoot a few and I had one dud with the bullet getting stuck in the barrel. I'm too afraid of what could happen if I shoot an underpowered one and have one get stuck and then shooting one after it. The one thing that saved my ass was the fact that they are too underpowered to cycle my slide and I had to do it manually and in the process I saw a half a bullet sticking outside of the muzzle. I also thought about selling them till I saw that and I don't want anyone to get hurt or ruin there gun. So I just decided to either throw them out or reload them. I got the 1000 at an auction for $80.00 so it will just take some time and powder to reload them.
Well, at the very least, it sounds like there's a lesson learned here about shooting other people's reloads, or for that matter, reloading FOR other people. Never, never, ever, under any circumstances has been my standard policy for many years now. Seen no reason to change that notion, and several examples that have reinforced it time and again.
Yep, I just witnessed that a couple of days ago when one of my shooting buddies came out to my place to test fire an AR 15 after repairs. He had a bag of ammo that was loaded by a well known "re-manufacturing" company here in Georgia. Very few of the rounds would chamber, and we found that the shoulder was slightly expanded. Looked like the seating die went too far. He decided to pull the bullets, resize, and reload with the same powder. Powder type unknown. He weighed the powder from several rounds to determine the load weight, and found them loaded with 0 to 26 grains. Yes, I said 0 grains. One round was empty. If we disregard the empty case, I feel that a 4 grain variance in such a small case could lead to disaster.
Same company sold another friend a case of ammo that he wanted to shoot in his M-16. Lots of jams. When the jammed cartridge was extracted, it pulled the front half of the previously fired round out with it.
I won't buy BB's from them.....
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