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Thread: Ideal #5 saves the day. Reloading .25 acp

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    Boolit Bub
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    Ideal #5 saves the day. Reloading .25 acp

    I recently acquired a Colt Jr in .25 acp.

    I went through my assortment of powder dispensing tools to try and throw the tiny 1.3 gr of bullseye required.

    I wasn't happy with the uniflow performance. My little dandy did not throw a small enough charge. Neither did the lyman accumeasure.

    I tried to research if baileyboats adjustable rotor would work to no avail. I did not find anyone that had one that could verify for me.


    Using the rcbs chargemaster was painfully slow but my only option minus modifying a .22lr case to use as a dipper.

    While waiting for the chargemaster to throw, I kept searching for any help on how to better speed up this process. I somehow came across a post here talking about the ideal #5 and the .25 acp and I remembered I owned one. I was going through a spurt of collecting powder charging tools and bought one years ago, surprisingly do not have a lyman #55.

    I dug it out and dusted it off. BOOM! 2nd try I was able to get it to accurately and repeatedly throw 1.3 gr of bullseye.

    Now reloading. 25 acp isn't painful anymore

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    B.B.s rotor has too large of a cavity for .25 acp. Little Dandy 0 and 00 are still to large?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdfoxinc View Post
    B.B.s rotor has too large of a cavity for .25 acp. Little Dandy 0 and 00 are still to large?
    Yep. Even the 00 rotor is still too large.

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    I've been looking for a Colt Junior, Star Model CU, or a Beretta Bobcat in .25 ACP.

    That's cool that an old reloading tool did the trick.

    BTW, are you loading cast boolits or manufactured j-words?

    Ed

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check