Scimmia
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Use them all you want, just know that they can and will make sub-par ammo.
3-die set versus 4-die set
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This is to be expected. Brass is not uniform in thickness. The catridges with thinner case mouths will glide through the FCD unmolested. The ones with thicker case mouths will be squished... and if squished enough, they will deform the bullet and/or reduce neck tension. It's really that simple.
If your guns' chambers are generous enough to fit those thicker cases without all that squishing, then why would you want to?
mljdeckard
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I load for 9mm, and I fond that most modern polymer-framed guns are loose enough to eat anything. But I have one very finicky .45 (A Para-Ordnance P-14) that needs more help. I added the FCD to my RCBS dies, and it works great. It's not the crimping, it's the post-sizing I like. It's nothing but a plus in my experience.
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Unless that gun is actually more accurate than your other guns, I would call the Para chamber the problem. But of course, the FCD is a very convenient bandaid, so long as the results work for you.
Well, there you go. You have a gun with a tight chamber. Too tight to use mixed brass with whatever bullet you are using.
Unless that gun is actually more accurate than your other guns, I would call the Para chamber the problem. But of course, the FCD is a very convenient bandaid, so long as the results work for you.
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mljdeckard
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The Para chamber is the problem. But I would rather add a step to reloading that I can do with my Lee hand press while I watch TV, than start shopping smiths to fit a new ramped barrel to a custom-run Para.
Yeah, I totally get it. I would probably do the same.
But if you want to get a smith involved, you wouldn't need to get a new barrel. All you would need is the chamber opened up a little at the casemouth. A smith would probably use a silicon carbide chamber reamer. Or even judicious application of wet/dry sandpaper over a rod/dowel.
But if you want to get a smith involved, you wouldn't need to get a new barrel. All you would need is the chamber opened up a little at the casemouth. A smith would probably use a silicon carbide chamber reamer. Or even judicious application of wet/dry sandpaper over a rod/dowel.
dickttx said:
Hey dick, a little clue for ya on Scimmia and the LFCD, he couldn't get it to work because he has Never even tried one.
That's right, his opinion is just that, an opinion, never tried it, never will, but he has a strong enough "Opinion" to tell others that actually use the tool that they are wrong or incompetent.
Grain of salt is the cure.
I have a 9MM with a SAMMI minimum chamber. Brass that is .3915 at the base will chamber, but .392 will not. I now gauge all my 9MM brass after sizing, (a horrid mix of range brass), and anything that passes the gauge after sizing passes after loading. Part of reloading is eliminating problem brass. In this case, 9MM brass that has been over expanded near the base from either too much pressure or a very sloppy chamber, or both. My other 9MMs will accept that brass that fails the gauge.
Scimmia
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I would encourage you to look for another solution. Crushing your bullet so that it fits is a really bad "fix".
steve4102 said:
And here we go again. If you really believe that you have to crush bullets to know that it's bad, we have nothing to talk about.
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