.357 case 'straightening'?

[buck460XVR]

I felt it, and said to myself, dang that's not right! And it wasn't.

My experience is, with .357, it seems if you can feel resistance on the belling die, you've got too much flare........

 

[david bachelder]

I pulled a bone head move the other day.

I had a bunch of .40S&W and some 45 Colt. I seperated the two and dropped the 45 colt in the cleaner. I had no idea that I had dropped in a piece of 45 Colt that had a .40 stuck inside. Normally I look closely at these things, but this one slipped by. The brass came out really clean and nice looking so I dropped it into my clean 45 Colt brass bucket. A week or two later I decided to load up some 45 Colt. Little did I know there was a self laid booby trap waiting on me.

I was running the brass through the LNL and all of a sudden things froze up. I had no idea what was going on so I pushed a little harder. I finally stopped and backtracked reversing the pressure on the press. It was then that I saw the strangest piece of 45 Colt Brass I had ever seen in my life. It kind of looked like a piece of .357 Sig brass. Strange. After a brief look I noticed what the problem was.

Felt like an idiot.

 

[JRH6856]

At least you didn't get a 9mm or 380 or 32 stuck in the .40 as well. You'd have some kind of turducken round.

 

[Claybuster6000]

Thanks for the input!

Hello Folks:
I'd like to thank you all for the great input you've given me (and even the criticism). I took the suggestion of using a larger caliber die (in this case .380), and it did the trick. I was able to reduce the flare enough to get the cases back into the .357 dies and essentially start over without losing any cases. Problem solved! I'm once again up to my *ss in br*ss! Thanks again.

 

[Comrade Mike]

I pulled a bone head move the other day.

I had a bunch of .40S&W and some 45 Colt. I seperated the two and dropped the 45 colt in the cleaner. I had no idea that I had dropped in a piece of 45 Colt that had a .40 stuck inside. Normally I look closely at these things, but this one slipped by. The brass came out really clean and nice looking so I dropped it into my clean 45 Colt brass bucket. A week or two later I decided to load up some 45 Colt. Little did I know there was a self laid booby trap waiting on me.

I was running the brass through the LNL and all of a sudden things froze up. I had no idea what was going on so I pushed a little harder. I finally stopped and backtracked reversing the pressure on the press. It was then that I saw the strangest piece of 45 Colt Brass I had ever seen in my life. It kind of looked like a piece of .357 Sig brass. Strange. After a brief look I noticed what the problem was.

Felt like an idiot.

Hey you never know, you might be onto the latest wild cat with that one

 

[thump_rrr]

I pulled a bone head move the other day.

I had a bunch of .40S&W and some 45 Colt. I seperated the two and dropped the 45 colt in the cleaner. I had no idea that I had dropped in a piece of 45 Colt that had a .40 stuck inside. Normally I look closely at these things, but this one slipped by. The brass came out really clean and nice looking so I dropped it into my clean 45 Colt brass bucket. A week or two later I decided to load up some 45 Colt. Little did I know there was a self laid booby trap waiting on me.

I was running the brass through the LNL and all of a sudden things froze up. I had no idea what was going on so I pushed a little harder. I finally stopped and backtracked reversing the pressure on the press. It was then that I saw the strangest piece of 45 Colt Brass I had ever seen in my life. It kind of looked like a piece of .357 Sig brass. Strange. After a brief look I noticed what the problem was.

Felt like an idiot.

This is why I hate having friends use my press.
I have a friend who also has a Hornady LnL AP Progressive.
He always seems to have trouble with his press.
One day he came over whe I was setup to run .45ACP.
He told me his was setup for .223 and asked if he could load on mine once I was done.
I loaded 500 rounds without any issues at all in about 30 minutes.

He brings how brass over and starts loading and he has all kinds of problems.
He tries to load so fast that the shellplate doesn't index properly, powder spills into the primer system jamming the slide which in turn doesn't close.
He doesn't even begin to notice so he drives the primer punch into the slider that bends it.
After this is all straightened he jams the press up with a .40 cal stuck inside of a .45ACP.
This throws the pawl adjustment out of whack.
Needless to say nobody uses my press anymore without supervision.

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Thump_rrr it sounds like your buddy needs a chill pill and some instruction on how to use an LNL.

 

[evan price]

Only if a 357 case gets in my 38s by accident, and since I sort my own brass, I have only myself to blame.