45 colt reloading

[osteodoc08]

I’ve had good success with the rcbs cowboy dies. Reportedly set up for lead. I haven’t done any dimension checks but they load and shoot fine out of all my 45 colts.

[onelight]

I don’t know if any one else has seen this happen but my hunting buddie carried a marlin 44 mag and when going in the camper would remove the load from the chamber and return it to the magazine after a few days of this he cycled all the ammo from the rifle the 2nd round nearest the receiver looked like he had been hitting it with a hammer I guess the weight of the rounds in the mag + the spring repeatedly slamming it into the stop were trying to drive that bullet back into the case.
Lever gun rounds need to be able to stand some rough treatment.
On a Henry you could take the pressure off the mag spring and remove the chambered round that is a plus if repeatedly clearing the chamber on the same ammo.

[waco]

I took my Lee Factory Crimp dies to work and chucked them up in a lathe and popped the carbide size ring out.
Now they are just a roll crimp die that doesn't resize your boolits.

[fn1889m]

Waco,
Could you fill me in on the details of removing the carbide ring? What role did the lathe play?

[str8wal]

I don’t know if any one else has seen this happen but my hunting buddie carried a marlin 44 mag and when going in the camper would remove the load from the chamber and return it to the magazine after a few days of this he cycled all the ammo from the rifle the 2nd round nearest the receiver looked like he had been hitting it with a hammer I guess the weight of the rounds in the mag + the spring repeatedly slamming it into the stop were trying to drive that bullet back into the case.
Lever gun rounds need to be able to stand some rough treatment.
On a Henry you could take the pressure off the mag spring and remove the chambered round that is a plus if repeatedly clearing the chamber on the same ammo.

As a youngun I carried a Win 30-30 hunting and noticed the rounds kept getting shorter after spending time in the tubular mag. Never gave a thought of increased pressure as I just didn't know about things like that.

[Randy Bohannon]

Seems I have a different set of dies for ea. of the 45 Colts I own. I’ve had to remove the 45 Colt ‘Bulge’ from cartridges shot in lever guns so chambered,those need a old set of RCBS steel dies to remove the ‘Bulge’.Then a carbide set to do modern chambered revolvers the .451-2” and jacketed bullets. Then a set of RCBS Cowboy dies for fat cast boolits in the Winchester 92’s fat butt @ .456 which I had to have a custom expander from Buffalo Arms because the Cowboy die expander was yet to small. The chamber on my Win/Miroku 92 45 Colt is so big I can use the expander from a 45-70 die expander. The rifle shoots excellent after figuring what it was going to take.
I think the 45 Colt is the most bastardized cartridge we find delightful,SAMMI specs. are a suggestion.

[M-Tecs]

The 45 Colt was around 50 years before SAAMI was established. The 45 Colt SAAMI standard was been revised at least once but it's still a mess.