Mike W1
Active Member
Had a little trouble with one magazine while out plinking the other day and have to admit I don't clean my practice mags very often. So to the bench I went and cleaned that one pretty thoroughly and was still getting a hangup feeding them out manually. Finally the little bulb lit up in my thick noggin and tried factory rounds and they worked fine. Different bullet than my 452374 of course but visually shorter OAL than my reloads were. So out with the loading manuals.
Don't know if my settings on the SD Dillon changed of where I got the info from when I set it up. I normally only use one bullet and powder setting but my reloads were definitely on the long side of what my manuals show for OAL.
The oldest Lyman didn't even show an OAL for that cartridge.
One that I presume is the 1973 edition showed O|AL as 1.275"
3rd Edition showed 1.272|
4th Edition has both 1.190" and1.272" for the same #452374 which I thought was odd.
Will be doing some loading fairly shortly so will take care of that length issue and guess I'll have to run a couple hundred rounds through the old single stage and shorten those overlength rounds up a bit. Really seemed odd that out of the blue, one magazine of the eight I use would act up and literally thousands fired over the last several years. Will have to see if I figured it all out now.
Don't know if my settings on the SD Dillon changed of where I got the info from when I set it up. I normally only use one bullet and powder setting but my reloads were definitely on the long side of what my manuals show for OAL.
The oldest Lyman didn't even show an OAL for that cartridge.
One that I presume is the 1973 edition showed O|AL as 1.275"
3rd Edition showed 1.272|
4th Edition has both 1.190" and1.272" for the same #452374 which I thought was odd.
Will be doing some loading fairly shortly so will take care of that length issue and guess I'll have to run a couple hundred rounds through the old single stage and shorten those overlength rounds up a bit. Really seemed odd that out of the blue, one magazine of the eight I use would act up and literally thousands fired over the last several years. Will have to see if I figured it all out now.