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Brass is something that goes on and off sale at a lot of places. I would always check thee sources before I placed an order.

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I believe that the little lights are measuring the current through the system. There are a lot of things that will impact the current *other* than metal fouling. One possibility is primer...

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Give Hillary a call ....:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Find a boat buoy that needs an anchor .....

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I have used 158 grain JHP's in the max and they work ok. I would not recommend going any lighter than that. If you are looking for maximum down range punch, you will want heavy bullets.

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Interesting, I thought it was more like a residual stress thing, and cycling would take it out faster.

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The 45 acp has a pretty well documented process when it fires:

The firing pin forces the cartridge forward in the chamber until it stops. By design this is when the case mouth hits the front...

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Anything bigger than 45-70 is actually going to be more of a problem if you want to go for smokeless. Black powder is really the only way to go for the real big cartridges.

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More so if you store them in the garage in Kansas and they see a lot of temperature change each year :mrgreen:

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If you run "short" brass through a 357 max you will build up lead or copper at the front of the chamber. It's a bear to clean the stuff out. If you don't fully clean things and put a max in the...

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A "full length" 45 acp case should be .898" long. A "go" gage is also .898" long for the obvious reason. A 45 acp no-go gage is .914" long. A 45 acp field gage is .920".

Firing pin...

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That's crazy stuff. I'd dump the 228 and get a 230 in a hurry ....

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Another way to run it is to pull a piece of 12-3 (ground plus three) and wire it to a pair of 20 amp breakers, one on each side of the 220 line. Less muss and fuss. Twice the power, since you...

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That's up in the part of the state where it gets cold and they have winter isn't it? :mrgreen:

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The Lee die should do a taper crimp if you set it up correctly.

Setup is tricky, a crimp of .472 is way to big and a crimp of .468 is dangerously small. The die needs to be carefully set up...

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Now we can get into explaining skin depth :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Ahh, that's a problem.

Have you scrubbed out the chamber real well? A brass brush may be required.

What is the diameter of the bullets at the case mouth. You need a number that's good...

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Long line = more drop. Smaller wire (bigger wire gage number) = more drop.

The more power you waste in the wires, the less gets to the pot. Less heat in the pot means the thermostat stays...

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I keep assuming that your 122 is 1.220". Is that correct?

If you seat them to 1.260 they also should drop right in. If the don't then something else is wrong.

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Safe to shoot with reduced loads. At 1.220 or 1.230 OAL you probably will have significant feed problems on a properly set up pistol. Short bullets = steep angles = jam.

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In a world of infinite variety, anything is possible. With lead bollits, pretty much everybody runs .452 diameter in 45 acp.

Check and see if they drop into the chamber. That will quickly...

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H&G is out of business. All you can reasonably afford are copies. The simple thing to do is to get a mold that looks like a copy of the H&G 68. If it looks like a copy, it probably is a...

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The problem there is that you need to know what else is on that same circuit. If you have it lightly loaded otherwise, then yes you are good to go. If the same circuit feeds three bedrooms and...

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The 45 acp head spaces on the mouth of the cartridge. Doing the crimp exactly correct is very important. Spending $10 on a taper crimp die is money well spent. Modern 45 acp die sets pretty...

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From the pictures I'm guessing you are set up in the basement. Most breaker boxes are also in the basement. It should not cost a whole lot to put a pair of dedicated 20 amp / 120 volt circuits...