Yeah, it was a reload, yeah it was nickel plated, yeah it's was already reloaded I cannot tell you how many times. But it left a perfect ring of metal in my Mechtech barrel. Nobody but nobody makes a broken shell extractor for 10mm cartridges. I tried all the standbys. I tried soaking it in Kroil overnight. I tried snagging the head with a cleaning rid. I tried jamming a 9mm case down the barrel. I tried a metal .45 caliber cleaning brush. Nothing but nothing would snag, or catch, or get that darned ring out. I finally gave up and took it to my gunsmith. He poked and prodded and he could not get it out. Finally he put a .45 cal Boresnake through the chamber side (Backwards from normal). He got the metal bristles right against the ring and did not go past the ring with them. Pulled it out backwards and out the ring popped.

Guess I'll be buying a .45 cal bore snake as long as I keep using old brass till it splits or separates.

I imagine he will make a mental note as well

Seems like you would pull down the barrel and out the chamber. (I guess that is backwards) Is that what He did?
I had this happen on my RIA 10mm. Gunsmith removed but never told me how He got it out.

I had on of those in a loading die... I tapped the hole with a 3/8 tap. Screwed in a 3" bolt and extracted ti pretty easily..

I have not seen one separate at the rim juncture before.

Glad you got it out!

CW

Not a whole lot of room to do that in the Mechtech. I would be afraid of what I would have to do to get the barrel out. I have the mechanical ability of a rotten tomato.

gandog, was this with you coated cast bullets?  If yes, there could be some building up of the coatings or the lead itself at the end of the chamber that may be wedging the casing tighter near the front of the chamber.  When extraction occurs it may have ripped the case head off...yes the casing may of had some stress or fatigue from previous firings that may also have been culprit!

And what was the load spec?

Quote from: The_Shadow on May 18 2015 07:50:06 AM MDT
gandog, was this with you coated cast bullets?  If yes, there could be some building up of the coatings or the lead itself at the end of the chamber that may be wedging the casing tighter near the front of the chamber.  When extraction occurs it may have ripped the case head off...yes the casing may of had some stress or fatigue from previous firings that may also have been culprit!

I religiously clean my guns after every range session. This was not a case of build up as I only fired maybe 28 rounds before the case separated. I'm 99% sure it was just a piece of brass reloaded one too many times. And it was a nickel plated case, famous for getting work hardened with too many reloads. I fired maybe 3-400 rounds of the same bullets over about three range trips. First time this has happened with the Mechtech.

Quote from: sqlbullet on May 18 2015 08:17:31 AM MDT
And what was the load spec?

Load spec? You mean the recipe I used for the reload? Was my normal load of a 185 grain RFN Precision Bullets coated projectile, 9.6 grains of Blue Dot. Alliance has 11.0 grains as the max load for a 180 grain, so I should have been nowhere near the max.