Just as an experiment, load some of the CBC cases but back the crimp out by 1/2 turn. This will not be as strong a crimp. This will prove if the bulge is from the crimp.
Leo
stopsign32v
get your calipers out and your reloading manual go to the 44/40 schematics and take measurements the entire length of the cbc loaded round. compare measurements on the cbc round to the schematics. that will tell you where the problem is.
Rick
Take a black magic marker and color the case than insert into the chamber and rotate the case. You will be able to see were the contact is. Once you do that you can figure out why.
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I am still stuck on the fact that if a resized case with no bullet will not chamber there is no point in seating a bullet or checking crimp adjustment .
It would seem to me that his case is not resized correctly or it is to long for the way the chamber is cut . When an empty case WILL chamber move on to expanding , bullet seating and crimp. Make sure each step in the process is correct before going to the next.
This is probably a simple problem if we could see his process.
I have had my share of wrestling with my own like this .
That bulge just above the cannelure line on the case is the culprit
... and if that bulge doesn't get fully ironed out upon resizing (and the die is bottomed out), then the sizing die/shell holder is the culprit. By any chance are you using a standard #14 shellholder,and not a #14B ?I tried some that were just sized and primed with no bullet and they will only drop in the chambers the same amount of length.
...and/or anyone else around w/ another make die set ?
Last edited by mehavey; 12-07-2019 at 10:07 AM.
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