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Yes, its a 44 Magnum.

What did go wrong was that he took a similar bullet to calculate in QL but a much lighter one. He then changed bullet weight (from 240 to 300) but did not adjust bullet length. This was sufficient to turn a stout load into a highly dangerous one. He loaded a 300gr bullet, set 0.545 deep with...

Today I verified a recipe a friend of mine reloaded and I shoot this week. I was a bit astonished that I got sticky extraction on the loads. The loads where stout but as I regularly shoot 50 AE and 500 Mag I didn't think they felt extreme. He said that yes they where stout but he double and...

Interesting thing is that this is only US related. Europe has had no price peaks whatsoever. We still buy our 50 9mm for 12-15 swiss francs for example. The situation in the US is not only some weeks old but months I would have thought that by now the import would have picked up and the...

Ok, again first: what do we have in a DW: a barrel tube, a nut and a shroud. Take the original 8.5 inch with non replaceable Compensator for example: That compensator is the nut. You can replace that with another nut. As seen here...

These pictures show the marks on the frame and throat both have been worked on and the Cylinder which apparently has been sanded down. By the way this work was not done at S&W but at a local gunsmith which does the stuff for S&W in switzerland. I'm not only disappointed about the crude work on...

Hi guys Got the gun back today. The description of the work is "to make it fit" and I can clearly see that they worked on the frame, cylinder and throat and have abrased metal from those parts because all traces of powder residue are gone on those parts on the surfaces they have been working...

Not if it follows the Dan Wesson design. Have a look how that works here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4-pHQ6rUQ

I'm absolutely sure its not clogged up as there is steel touching steel. I don't think by the way that residue would withstand pressures in the 40k psi ballpark. I'm still trying to figure out how the repair is going to be done. Sending to the US is no option at all as the Export and...

Hi guys, On monday I recieved my brand spanking new S&W 500 8 inch hiviz model. One thing I noticed was that I could not get the Comp for Lead in place, it was slightly too long to fit. The preinstalled comp for jacketed bullets did not have the same problem. Yesterday the range was open and...

Shot the APC in 9mm yesterday. Oh boy what a sweeeeeeet gun. Forget about scorpion or BT9 (I'm swiss). This would be my absolute first buy bar none!

Hi all Thanks for all your input. I've bought a new primer feed with tubes and everything now primer feeding is as reliably as it should be. My guess is that the old one was a bit out of spec there and another bit out of spec there which then lead to drive me nuts. Anyway: Case closed...

Hmm, with switching to smaller primers I also switches brands. Maybe that adds to the problem and with the large (CCI) primers one of my problems was exactly as described: The slide would often be stuck at the rear position. As for the tube: diameter is the same, at least within 0.001 of each...

Just a quick note. I preprimed today several hundred 357 Magnums without a single flipped primer nor a single "no primer". This would lead to the impression that there is indeed something wrong with the tube or the large slide or both.

Ok, then I will say it again :) I have, repeat have, repeat HAVE checked that the the tube is the right side in. I know that the tube has one plain normal side and one side with a tiny narrower ring around it. I have also polished the slide so there are no burrows that could cause any problem...

I will simply buy a new primer assembly, new slide, new spring and hope this helps eliminate my problems. Just for the record: I really have checked and corrected the things that have been mentioned in this thread and still have issues.

The Hornady primer system is driving me absolutely nuts. Because of its unreliablility I do now 2 turns with the brass. First one is depriming and priming nothing more then all the rounds are checked if they have a primer and the primer is in correctly. I'd say roughly 1 out of ten is not that...

Ok guys, back from the range. And you will not believe it, not a single failure. All bullets did at least make it out of the barrel with some speed although I had two instances that where probably close ones. So I think there is two things here. The most probable cause is humidity. And...

Sorry guys, range was closed today. Will report the outcome of the test on tuesday.

Thanks for the clarification on the wet powder. The powder from the pulled cartridges looked normal. Not clumpy at all. The shells where decapped before cleaning. But you brought me onto something with that wet primer pockets. Maybe powder has not much problem with humidity but what about...