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Posted: 6/9/2011 8:40:55 AM EDT
| I am hoping you guys can help me. I have reloaded for myself for a number of years and have never had problems with it. I recently started loading 44 mag ammo for a friend of mine. I have loaded about 600 rounds of ammo for him so far. about 90% of the ammo has worked perfectly. The other 10% of the ammo will not fit into the Cylinder of his Ruger. I am loading on a Dillon 550 press. What all could be causing this? Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. |
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He can't get them to load into the cylinder on his revolver, they won't slide in.
And now that you say over crimping that is very possible. Each time he told me of the issue, I would tighten the crimp a little and never thought to back it off any. I will give that a try on my next loads. Do you know why this would not be the case on each round loaded and only on about 10% |
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Quoted: I would guess case length variance.He can't get them to load into the cylinder on his revolver, they won't slide in. And now that you say over crimping that is very possible. Each time he told me of the issue, I would tighten the crimp a little and never thought to back it off any. I will give that a try on my next loads. Do you know why this would not be the case on each round loaded and only on about 10% |
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I am hoping you guys can help me. I have reloaded for myself for a number of years and have never had problems with it. I recently started loading 44 mag ammo for a friend of mine. I have loaded about 600 rounds of ammo for him so far. about 90% of the ammo has worked perfectly. The other 10% of the ammo will not fit into the Cylinder of his Ruger. I am loading on a Dillon 550 press. What all could be causing this? Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. The cases are most likely different lengths, aggravating the problem by causing inconsistent crimps. Cranking the crimp down swelled the cases even more. |
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Measure the diameter of the loaded round where it is binding. Check against a cartridge drawing. Is the problem at the crimp? Case length needs to be relatively uniform for crimping, so that all the crimps are about the same. You can see from the process that a longer case will crimp differently on the bullet than a short one if you use the same die setting.
You can probably avoid pulling bullets and starting over by running the completed loads into the full length die a little ways to get the dimension down to where they will chamber. Go a little at a time and measure. Don't overdo this process. |
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