My glue is not drying.

[toot]

now, i think they, the powers to be call what we are doing is called a THINK TANK??? fancy title for good old SWAMP YANKEE common sense, you gotta love it!!

[centershot]

Never used more than a 1/4 sheet of toilet paper tamped down on top of the filler. Fire the cases while the rifle is vertical. Always got lopsided cases when fired with the rifle level.

This, exactly!!!

[John Boy]

make some shot cards or a wad like they use for blank loads i would never use glue or hot glue

Interesting that you state never to use hot glue ... I have reloaded many boxes of 16 & 12ga black powder brass hulls with over shot cards and a ring of hot glue with no issues cleaning the barrels

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Well it all came out ok. I decided I was not going to wait and wait and wait. Grabbed the cleaning rod and headed out to get them shot dry or wet, all shot just fine, nothing was left in barrel. Shot at a old laminate table top leaned up against a pole from twenty feet away, checked bore visually every five or six rounds for first two boxes, no change in appearance so proceeded to shoot all one hundred without issues. Bore cleaned as usual Hoppe's, brush, rag, oil rag. Now its all ready for today's second form firing, no glue this time just powder and a OO buckshot pressed into the case mouth. Boolits are next on the schedule for testing, have two hundred Lee Karabiner's all ready to load up.

I'm glad that all worked out for you.
You don't mention exactly what Cases you are fire forming, maybe it is in another thread that I haven't read.
Anyway, why don't you just load boolits?
That's what I do when fire-forming 257rob brass into 257Rx6.5

[MOA]

I'm glad that all worked out for you.
You don't mention exactly what Cases you are fire forming, maybe it is in another thread that I haven't read.
Anyway, why don't you just load boolits?
That's what I do when fire-forming 257rob brass into 257Rx6.5

John, I was fire forming cases for a new 1867 Swedish sporting rolling block which is chambered in a now obsolete cartridge of 8x58Rd. I'm using the 8mm Hungarian case which is 2mm shorter than the original case. Part of the reason for not using boolits yet is due to wanting to make sure chamber is large enough to release boolit upon firing, I have discovered that the chamber is very generous to the extent that a fire formed case mouth is large enough to just drop a unsized boolit into with room left over to spare. Just got a Lee collet neck sizer and have sent a dummy sample of case with boolit to Lee and they are making a custom FCD up for it so in the future I will only neck and light crimp. I don't need crimp to shoot paper, but will not take hunting unless boolit is crimped in place. Here is the cartridge, I'm waiting for the factory crimp die to arrive to crimp and then shoot some paper.

[waksupi]

John, I was fire forming cases for a new 1867 Swedish sporting rolling block which is chambered in a now obsolete cartridge of 8x58Rd. I'm using the 8mm Hungarian case which is 2mm shorter than the original case. Part of the reason for not using boolits yet is due to wanting to make sure chamber is large enough to release boolit upon firing, I have discovered that the chamber is very generous to the extent that a fire formed case mouth is large enough to just drop a unsized boolit into with room left over to spare. Just got a Lee collet neck sizer and have sent a dummy sample of case with boolit to Lee and they are making a custom FCD up for it so in the future I will only neck and light crimp. I don't need crimp to shoot paper, but will not take hunting unless boolit is crimped in place. Here is the cartridge, I'm waiting for the factory crimp die to arrive to crimp and then shoot some paper.

If your bullets are sliding into a fired case that easily, you will most likely need a larger diameter bullet for good accuracy. You want a bit of resistance inserting a bullet into a fired unsized case. That will give you a good throat fit. As is, the bullet is going to kinda rattle around in the bore until it decides to squirt out the end. It sounds like you are going to be paper patching, so this problem is solved.

[MOA]

Waksupi, I will first try to beagle the mold and play with the alloy before I have to start thinking about zig zagging the boolits. Not that I'm opposed to wrapping them, it would certainly be in keeping with the period.