Loading .45 with BP compression question

[Arcey]

  ...See if the wife sleeps in tomorrow, I might try them in her Thunderbolt.

You wouldn't dare...........................

[litl rooster]

You wouldn't dare...........................

I refer to these mouments as a Covert Operation,

[Arcey]

I refer to these mouments as a Covert Operation,

Last I heard they called it temptin' an ass kickin'.....

[Wildcat Will]

Maybe I am crazy . . . . okay there really is no maybe . . . but my loads for the 45 LC for the rifle and the pistols are the same.  I drop the powder about 12 inches and the powder sits about an 1/8 th of an inch from the top.  That works out to about 37 gns of 2F.  I then take a 250 gn Big Lube and seat it without prior compression.  I shoot them out of my RVs and my Marlin and the bullets go where I point them.  (Not always where I want them to go.) 

If you want to see what it looks like take a look at the pictures I posted in "Fire and Smoke".  The guns jump, so do some of the ROs, but I have never had a problem with loading or deformation of the brass.

[Hell-Er High Water]

litl rooster,

What I am about to post will probably ruffle the feathers on Lee die fans.

The first thing that I do when I get a set of Lee dies is to throw the locking rings with the "O" rings in the trash.

I replace them with RCBS rings with brass set screws.  Then the Lee dies can be put back in the loading press the same, each and every time, just like any other die set.  No adjustment, just install them and tighten them down hand tight.  They are in the same place as they were during the last loading session.

The RCBS rings are available in 5 or 6 packs from most major reloading supply houses.

This should solve your die movement problems.

HHW