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Hello Byronbush,
I've made a few top punches for folks.. pm me iff'n your interested.
Stay safe
Calvin

Fishnbob,
This may help you out a bit...
http://www.starrett.com/pages/1546_t_r_mic_care.cfm
Stay safe
Calvin

HEy YA'll,
Why don't you just get the tool made for checking micrometers..? A mic standard. Just go to enco and look them up.. Sheesh.. anything that is a known size can be used as a standard..
...

Hey Ya'll,
As one who uses precision measuring devices day in and day out to make a living.. I too dislike batteries and dials... But one has to understand that measurements are relative.. to your...

Kermit2 Sir,
I've always had good luck with 4.5 to 5.5 of unique in the .44 special.. I know this is contrary to conventional wisdom but it has worked well for me in multiple guns... With that...

Turbo Sir,
You may find that by 'playing' with seating depths you may be able to minimize your feed issue problem. Personally I'd try this before any mods to the mold.. As for your mod.. it's not...

dcp,
Your only constraint is the final size of a loaded round ! If you can get it in the chamber it will safely come out the other end.. With that said.. make a dummy with one of the .380 boolits...

Hey Yall,
Starline sells them.. they are called 5 in ones. and are for blanks.. no pressure and primers pop out and stay out.. actually all primers pop out some but are reseated by normal cartridge...

FWIW
I've had real good results with 12 gns and lymans nice little 358156 and 18gns in the 44 with anything 240 gn.. Just thought I'd throw my two cents in..
Good luck
stay safe
...

I'll bite,
Unique
accurate 5744 or trail boss
2400
varget
hodgon 4831sc
AND black powder !
Yeah I know that's 6 but that's what I'd "have to have"
Stay safe
Calvin

HEy YA'll,
This is what passes for swaging lube in these parts... Cheap and plentiful it is..
http://www.lowes.com/pd_146594-12704-31-388-6_4294858489+4294963108_4294937087?productId=1017915...

Hey Ya'll,
Once upon a time long ago.... I worked in a shop that had two shifts with an hour between shift changes... the management realized that 'home jobs' would be done regardless of how ever...

Hey Ya'll,
I have a real fondness for shapers... There is nothing better that I've found for working cast/ductile iron.. I just used my sheldon to make a vise from a casting that a friend made.....

Hey Ya'll,
Wow! three 'central' Marylanders in one post ! Hey if you need need a top punch made just track me down (pm me ) and I'll help ya'll out..
Stay safe
Calvin
Emmitsburg

Whistler Sir,
Bret is right... As for the reamer folks... well they gotta sell reamers, that's their business. As for their recommendations..they answer first to their lawyers and then their...

Whistler Sir,
I really think you made more of a problem for yourself than you know... You need LARGER diameter bullets, period. If you have bullets that are .452 and the throat is .4525 then you...

Hey Faret,
Iff'n you can't find one just pm me and I'll make ya what ya need..
Stay safe
Calvin

Galaxie,
If your groove ends up at .354 generally you want to go .001 over that.. So iff'n I was you I'd try for a end product of around .335-.356. 9mm's can be a pain to load for but in the past...

Hey Ya'll,
7 taken with various cast projectiles with my pack of wolf like hunting buddies... Some with pure lead in the front stuffers and some with lyman's sabot shotgun slug ( 525 ww 12ga ) and...

Hey Ya'll,
I've run into this 'problem' alot.. especially with plastic fouling.. Whilst I've tried pre-lubing the barrel.. ( I used spg fwiw ) and it works.. Another lube that I've found that...

Dualsport,
A way to get around the problem your having is... hold the sprue plate against the nipple of the pot.. pour your boolit.. twist the mold away and then pour a 'regular' sprue puddle on...

That sounds like it would be a kick butt little boolit in a 38-55.. if it really casts up .388 projectiles.. I use lyman's 37583 ( 150gns as cast .383 dia as cast ) all the time in my new england...

Hey Bret,
I think you may be right.... I've very rarely had a new mold that cast up to expectations on the first try... It always seems the first casting session the bullets just don't come out...

Hey Softpoint,
I use the 45-70 with accurate 5744 all the time.. try dropping back to 27 grains for straight wheel weights.. As fur adding the pure lead and getting great results.. here's what may...

30hrrtt,
Sounds like a 'mold to hot' issue.. I've had the same issue in the past and I find I have to cast 'cold' or maybe a better description is that I cast alot cooler than I cast with my other...