Gallery of Dramas. Broken Enfield Parts!

[RJW NZ]

For the first and now only time I bought reloaded brass from a home reloader at a gunshow in about 2003 for target shooting. They fired normally and it wasn't until we picked up the brass until we saw that 12 of 20 rounds had case fractures, from short to very long.
I consider us lucky it didn't cause any of several other serious repercussions as the gases escaped through places other than the barrel.
I didn't have any way to contact the seller afterwards.

Just shows to go ya, when buying home done reloads, there's no telling what you're buying. I NEVER buy these kind of reloads now.

I see the tag on the ammo says 'new brass', if thats true and these are reloaded for 2800 fps/125 grain, could simply a hot load of 44 grains of 4895 powder do this, or would it only be the result of old over used brass? I've seen this cracking before but only on ancient poorly stored ww2 303 ammo.

The R S at the end could therefore only stand for Rat Sh_t. lol