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[batman]

How much is to much over as far as dim on a 357.
I have been shooting .358 and my casting are .360.
I just dont want to buy a resizer if I dont have to [I am broke]

[Freightman]

Have you slugged your barrel yet? I found that a .360 is fine for my pistol but you might be different, if it will chamber with no more than a light push shoot it. I presume you are talking about a revolver?

[44man]

How much is to much over as far as dim on a 357.
I have been shooting .358 and my casting are .360.
I just dont want to buy a resizer if I dont have to [I am broke]

I fully understand "broke."
I would say if you seat a boolit and the cartridge chambers in the gun you will be OK. If not, go to Midsouth and buy a Lee size die, that will be the cheapest.
If you are like me, take a piece of brass rod, drill a hole through it a tad smaller then the boolit and from the other end, drill a little larger then the boolit, leaving about 3/4" to 1" small. Then lap it to size your boolit to what you want. Brass will last a long, long time pushing lubed boolits through.
Of course you can use steel, bronze or even aluminum if you can find some free scrap. It can even be a square chunk of metal.
Lube the boolits by hand and use a dowel with a knob on the end to push boolits through the hole.
A really, really cheap way is to lube the boolits and push them through the revolver throats. Remove the cylinder and use it for a size die.

[Freightman]

[QUOTE=44man;794620
Of course you can use steel, bronze or even aluminum if you can find some free scrap. It can even be a square chunk of metal.
Lube the boolits by hand and use a dowel with a knob on the end to push boolits through the hole.
A really, really cheap way is to lube the boolits and push them through the revolver throats. Remove the cylinder and use it for a size die. [/QUOTE]
Have thought of the hole in the metal but never thought of the cylinder! see you learn something new every day or you die.
I thought of this for a kinda custom lube on the cheap a block of metal and drilll a hole in the side use a zert and use a cheap grease gun to pump lube.

[batman]

thank you this helps me alot.

[MtGun44]

If the as cast, unsized boolit when seated in your brass will chamber freely,
no need to size, esp when broke. Been years for me, but when I was young
even a few dollars for loading gear was hard to come by. You should have
good results, too - typically more problems come from undersized than come
from oversized.

Make yourself a cake cutter and use a small metal pan to pan lube. Slow, but it
works fine.

Bill

[batman]

so they are safe to shoot?
if they dont shoot well I will do something.

[runfiverun]

yep safe to shoot.
360 is only a couple thou over what should be normal size and should only raise your pressure about 500 psi.
hardly noticeable.

[Bret4207]

Where you get into trouble with "a little too big" is when you are running hotter loads. Mid range cast loads PROBABLY won't see a huge pressure spike, but it never hurts to be very observant for pressure signs the first 4-5 cylinder fulls. Sometimes with a slightly fat for the gun boolit you'll get some build up and accuracy will decrease as pressure increases. Keep and eye out and as long as you aren't hotrodding in the first place you should be able to judge for yourself. Cast tends to be far more forgiving in this area than jacketed.

If you want to start sizing the Lee system is inexpensive and works fine.