I've never tried them. My loads pull double duty in a 357 carbine. So I load bullets that will cycle through it.Or a 148 DEWC. Also good for self defence
I've never tried them. My loads pull double duty in a 357 carbine. So I load bullets that will cycle through it.Or a 148 DEWC. Also good for self defence
Just a guess on my part but I believe the top die just resizes, second die deprimes, flares and expands, third die seats and crimps.
Just bell enough to not shave the bullet going in the case , your crimp looks good to me
Ok, tried my first case, no powder, after seating and crimping i9 can still turn the bullet in the case.
Now, my expander is just a bell, so how hard shud it start, i can push it in up to the cannelure with my finger, it is snug, is this ok, or is it belled to much., and should the bullet actually be pressed in.
Thats why i can turn it in the case after crimped, or is my crimp not tight enough,or the dies is wore out some,
also, i have to do something with the press i think, after touching die with a ccard space, it still locks up, what i mean is i have to back the dies out1 turn to release handle, but at that point, it doesnt crimp good.
It is the over space after going over center,trying to find answers in my manual before asking here
thanjks for all the help
Good advice. My thoughts exactly.Those dies will work great for you. I wouldn't worry about spending money on new ones.
Buy a Lyman manual with the money you would spend on dies. Then read the intro to reloading part. It will answer 99% of your questions in a clear, orderly fashion.
Cast bullets are cheap. Coated cast are cheap and save a lot of potential headache.
Universal makes a great combination 38/357 powder in my experience.
I've shot everything from 125-180 gr cast in 38 special with excellent results.
so i have to resize no matter what, even if there first fired from brand new.
heres 3 more practice rounds, i used the swc seater on the rnf, maybe the round would be better, or do i need a wadcutter seater. My rnf looks like a cross between it and an swc now.
I think my problem is the need to make all cases exactly the same length, even just a .0005 to .005 makes a difference in the bell
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Yes, you must resize every time. The only exception is new brass, and some resize it.
This is new brass, or you mean new not fired, like once in my gun
I wouldn't worry about it, 38 spl cases don't stretch enough to trim. I read an article years ago where the magazine was trying to determine the life of 38 brass. They started with six, but eventually settled on one case. They got over 130 loadings from that one case before it split.Thanks, ill start going through my brass and check aol with my dial caliper first,i bought all the brass new, so hopefully there close and i put them back in the original case they came in. so they should match. I also got a case trimmer in the box
Set your sizer to bottom out on the shell holder.Ok, ill try the sizer die again and see what happens, when i tried it before i could see a difference in the case where it was resized and smaller than the bottom of case, i thought i was smashing it to much like the die was not good
so what could i use for a lube with out getting it in all the cases that would mess with the powder, is there a spray of some kind, or maybe i will just go look for a newer set on ebay, carbide or nitride set, and start with some thing im sure about instead of these old ones i know nothing about or how they have been taken care of, i mean they went out of buisness in the 70s