Blowback in .45 colt solutions?

[Dick Dastardly]

Howdy Bad Ramon,

That is one solution I'd not seen.  Thanks for it.  I also have done this, but not with pistol cases.  Another similar solution, way more expensive and probably about the same end result, would be to order a custom resizing die.  I like your solution better.

DD-DLoS

[Steel Horse Bailey]

              Years ago a method of sizing straight-walled cases was used to control stretching and arbturation. The common term of that time was called "barrel sizing". Quite simply this was sizing only enough of the case so that it could be easily chambered in the gun. In my experience this was best done using a regular steel sizing die,NOT a carbide die. The regular steel dies had a nice gradual taper, not the same size all the way down as the carbide die. If you were sizing for 2 different guns, you simply adjusted the die for the tighter of the two chambers. This type of sizing was pretty popular before the advent of carbide sizers.
                     Last time I used this method of sizing was with a Cimarron "Colt" about 18 years ago in .44 Special. I also used that method for several years in a S&W Mod.14 in .38 Special. Give it a try....................

Thanks for the input, Bad Ramon

I guess that'd be SIMILAR to someone's (Cuts Crooked, I think) method he calls "neck sizing" pistol cartridges only using carbide dies.  Same technique: not going all the way down to the "fully sized" measurement.  I hope I explained myself right - I understand exactly what you meant.

[Marshal harpoluke]

Is there even such a thing as 350 grain Big Lubes?  I have a 300 grain Lee mold that has a decent lube grove in it, I'll be trying that one out in my Henry with a compressed 40 grain load as well....

Sorry Typo.





250gr. .454

[Fox Creek Kid]

...I guess that'd be SIMILAR to someone's (Cuts Crooked, I think) method he calls "neck sizing" pistol cartridges...

You can get those already from the factory. They're called 44-40. 

[Steel Horse Bailey]

You can get those already from the factory. They're called 44-40. 

[Bad Ramon]

             Its truley amazing how fast technology is forgotten. When I first started shooting home-made cast bullets in rifles and pistols, it was common practice to size cast bullets .001 to.002 larger than groove diameter. This was common practice even though the cast bullet manuels of the time admonished sizing as close to groove diameter as possible. Seems the written word wasn't quite the same as what was being practised. Good shooting..............