I picked up this interesting pistol this weekend at the gun show. It is a CZ 38 made for the German military during WW2 while they were occupying the country. Very cool hinged barrel design. At $350 incuding the original military holster, I couldnt say no. Amazingly this is my first .380 pistol. I have dies and components as I load it for my father. I'm loading 95 gr (?) Lee RN powder coated, sized to .356, over TG. They will not chamber without extra effort. They will chamber under full power of the recoil spring, but then a good bit of force is needed to extract the live round.
I have adjusted COAL, and taper crimp to no help. As a quality control I dug out a vintage 1940's box of factory .380, and she ran those 100% Any ideas what I'm missing?