I learned a lesson about load development last week. In the 90 degree heat, some of my 6BR loads were running quite a bit hotter than what the published load data suggested and I should have stopped sooner. I wasn't paying enough attention to ALL of the signs of pressure and ended up with some brass that has obvious case head swipes. Some of them also have an imprint of the mechanical ejector slot on the TL3 bolt head.

I am setting aside the cases with the deeper ejector imprint. For the ones with only swipe marks, I thought I might just clean those up and keep reloading them. I figure I don't want to reload a case with visible case head marks due to not knowing if the marks came from older loadings or the most recent one.

Does this sound reasonable or should I view these cases with more suspicion?

Thanks