FISH4BUGS
08-05-2015, 05:44 PM
I have an H&G 319 200 gr swc mould that I am playing with. I got ready to load it into 357 and thought it would be a good idea to do a dummy round to test in the Model 28 and the Rossi 92. Guess what? TOO LONG! It sticks out of the cylinder in the 28 and it won't even cycle in the Rossi.
The bullet is billed as a 357 maximum bullet but I thought it might make an interesting 357 magnum bullet. Might even try it in a 38 eventually just for chuckles.
If I could figure out how to post photos I would but I can't. So there.
The problem is that if I crimp in the very ample crimp groove, even seating as deep as possible and crimping as high as possible, the loaded round is too long to fit in the cylinder or cycle in the Rossi. I wonder what would happen if I crimp it halfway up the rather wide front drive band? There isn't a crimp groove there but it SHOULD work. I know there are other bullets (I have an H&G mould in 38 that is a 130 gr bullet without a crimp groove) that don't even have a crimp goove and get crimped on the front drive band.
Anyone do this with other bullets? Or anyone with experience with the #319? I don't want to mess this up and blow up a nice gun.....I have already done that twice in my life and I prefer to not do that again.
Many thanks......
The bullet is billed as a 357 maximum bullet but I thought it might make an interesting 357 magnum bullet. Might even try it in a 38 eventually just for chuckles.
If I could figure out how to post photos I would but I can't. So there.
The problem is that if I crimp in the very ample crimp groove, even seating as deep as possible and crimping as high as possible, the loaded round is too long to fit in the cylinder or cycle in the Rossi. I wonder what would happen if I crimp it halfway up the rather wide front drive band? There isn't a crimp groove there but it SHOULD work. I know there are other bullets (I have an H&G mould in 38 that is a 130 gr bullet without a crimp groove) that don't even have a crimp goove and get crimped on the front drive band.
Anyone do this with other bullets? Or anyone with experience with the #319? I don't want to mess this up and blow up a nice gun.....I have already done that twice in my life and I prefer to not do that again.
Many thanks......