Welcome to our fascinating craft and the site. I agree with JonB. Uniformity in size and roundness is very important. Eliminating that variable will allow you to freely experiment with other things like lube, powder, velocities etc. Much of our craft is eliminating variables which makes it so interesting for all of us.
If you are using a carbide FCD you are definitely not delivering .360" to the cylinder throats. Load a dummy and crimp it, pull the boolit and mic it. This is what you are sizing to, by using the FCD.
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Feels good throwing your own lead downrange, don’t it?
Glad your first efforts were a success.
Yes it does. Next on the list is 44 mag.
All downhill from here
Be careful now, if the bug bites you, it may for sure go down hill.All downhill from here
But in an up-hill way.
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