The success of any forensic investigation of reloaded cartridges largely depends on the expert's knowledge of all the technological features of the reloading process. From the expert point of view it is important to know the properties and features of the reloading equipment in order to recognize the characteristic features of relief on the surface of the examined cartridges indicating the possible reloading and competently interpret the recognized features. The conducted expert experiments made it possible to reveal the regularities of trace formation on the repeatedly used cases of self-loaded cartridges during shooting out a firearm. There are the traces of both the previous shots and used reloading equipment on the surface of repeatedly used self-loaded cartridge cases. The resulting trace pattern illustrates the changes caused by the impact of the trace-forming surfaces of the reloading equipment and firearms on the surface of the reloaded cartridge cases for rifled firearms. The reloaded ammunition recognizing while working with it as the object of research is one of the tasks of any forensic ballistic examination.
BALLISTIC EXAMINATION, CARTRIDGE, SHELL, RELOADING, MARK
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