What Case Trimmers do you all like and recommend?

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Originally Posted by EDG

Resizing your cases makes them smaller in diameter. As the case walls are squeezed in the displaced material will cause the cases to elongate slightly.
If you open your cases to a larger diameter you are really using an expander - not a resizer.
If you intend to resize them with a standard die after firing then your should trim them after resizing while they fit your case holder.

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I am not re-forming the Cases to a smaller diameter.

I have to re-form or expand them to be a little larger diameter.

I doubt I will have any need to re-form them after they are fired - Fire-Formed. If I were to wish to do so, no one makes any such Dies anyway, and I would have to make my own Die.

Cases need to be same diameter as .38 S & W...the Revolver is meant for an obsolete Cartridge which was same diameter as .38 S & W, but much longer.

.357 Maximum Cases are all I can think of to work with for this, and they are too small a diameter to accept .361 Bullets.

These are Black Powder Revolver Cartridges.

Even so .357 Max cases are still smaller than .38 S&W.
What you are calling reforming is not really reforming as the word is normally used.
All you are doing is expanding the case mouth it about the size of a fired case.
There is nothing new or different about this. I once bought a box of 500 bullets to load in .357 Mag cases.
The loaded ammo would not chamber because the bullets were .362.

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Originally Posted by Oyeboten

.357 Maximum Cases are all I can think of to work with for this, and they are too small a diameter to accept .361 Bullets.

These are Black Powder Revolver Cartridges.

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Oyboten,

One suggestion with the Wilson trimmer: Since this trimmer is running steel on steel it is a good idea to keep lube on the various you run in the mandrel, ie your trim cutter etc.

It is imperative when running with power.

Other trimmers need lube as well but the Wilson is the most critical of the bunch.

Three44s

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Originally Posted by EDG

Even so .357 Max cases are still smaller than .38 S&W.
What you are calling reforming is not really reforming as the word is normally used.
All you are doing is expanding the case mouth it about the size of a fired case.
There is nothing new or different about this. I once bought a box of 500 bullets to load in .357 Mag cases.
The loaded ammo would not chamber because the bullets were .362.

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Ahhhh, makes sense, no 'reforming' then, just expanding.

Since I have never reformed or had to expand Cases before, it is new to me.

There are no expanding Dies I know of to enlarge .357 Maximum ( or .357 Magnum, or .38 Special ) out to .38 S & W diameter.

If you know of any, please let me know?

Otherwise, my only recourse is to either make one or have one made.

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Originally Posted by Three44s

Oyboten,

One suggestion with the Wilson trimmer: Since this trimmer is running steel on steel it is a good idea to keep lube on the various you run in the mandrel, ie your trim cutter etc.

It is imperative when running with power.

Other trimmers need lube as well but the Wilson is the most critical of the bunch.

Three44s

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Thanks for the mention!

Will do!