round stuck in G26: slide is locked perhaps 1/4\” back

[B.Sauer]

There\’s the rub, I still use a single stage press! Much easier for me. No, you can\’t check an un-sized case easily/quickly for a bulge. An un-sized case won\’t ever seat in a case gauge. Yes, I have my air gun hose down beside me to regularly blow debris from the case gauge and press. You could maybe just run all your brass thru the sizing stage only and check each case when done, then finish off with the different stages with the non bulged cases. Yes, it\’s a time thing. You can run a finished round thru the bulge buster no problem. Maybe just drop each finished round thru the case gauge and the ones that don\’t just freely drop in/out put aside for a bulge buster run. You shouldn\’t really have that many, I don\’t. My CZ SP01 has no problem with the slightly bulged case rounds, it\’s the match barrel guns that will hang up. I had a live round stuck in the chamber once and I couldn\’t get it into battery to fire it at the range. I brought it home and beat the slide back with a mallet to finally eject it out. Scared the hell out of me while doing it. I told my wife, don\’t be alarmed if you hear a gun shot coming from the garage!
Happy Thanksgiving and shooting!
Bob

[Joe in Missouri]

LOL
Thanks for the story Bob.

That makes it much more clear.

FWIW I have bulk once shot brass from armorally.com and most of them actually drop into the
case gauge and only a few don\’t drop in easily.

I then took my G26 barrel and tested a few and most of them dropped right on it. (this is unsized brass)

Thanks for the idea of sizing on a single stage or alternatively running only the bad the finished rounds trough the bulge buster.

One other idea I have heard is to make sure they you crank the 9mm sizing die down as tight as you can to the shell plate.
I am running 223 right now but will check that also.

I think you are right. Most of my rounds even if the case gauge doesn\’t like a few, I think that the G26 chamber will take almost anything. At least I know what I am looking for.

God Bless from the Missouri Ozarks

[Joe in Missouri]

LOL
Thanks for the story Bob.

That makes it much more clear.

Thanks for the idea of sizing on a single stage or alternatively running only the bad the finished rounds through the bulge buster.

One other idea I have heard, is to make sure they you crank the 9mm sizing die down as tight as you can to the shell plate. I believe that is how Dillon has you set that die. I am running 223 right now but will check when I go back to 9mm.

I think you are right. Most of my rounds even if the case gauge doesn\’t like a few, will be OK, and that bulge busting them would be best. At least I know what I am looking for now.

Thanks and God Bless from the Missouri Ozarks

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