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Old thread, here goes anyway. Brass is easy to form, in a rifle the short neck makes little difference, load long.
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Old thread, here goes anyway. Brass is easy to form, in a rifle the short neck makes little difference, load long.
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Jason, that looks like it should work pretty well! I bet I could form and load those with the B&D dies. Got to find another barrel for the Contender now!
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You know, As I was playing around with ideas since my last post, I remembered that 45 WinMag was made from 30-06 and 308 brass cutdown below the neck. Probably wouldn't be hard to neck that short case to fit 35 caliber bullets to make a 357-45Winmag which would feed and run out of a Mauser magazine with ease... I foresee a trip to the garage while the wife is away to build a dummy case...
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i make mine with a 35 whelen die set cut down. sizing and seater die are cut off at the difference between the whelen and 445 sm case.
well. Necro posting again.
I've got a 357-44 B&D finish reamer coming in the mail. For the price I got it for on Ebay, it was cheaper than renting a reamer. Hopefully I don't need to send it in to PT&G for resharpening once it gets here.
I'll look at getting a set of C&H Dies for this cartridge next week for an early Christmas present.
Bruce
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why not go all the way to .358JDJ?
Mike
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Getting into the 357 AutoMag cartridge area.
Leadmelter
MI
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I have three rifles in Maximum. First choice.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |