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Hi Yonak, If you are loading a 98grn HBWC in a 32acp case, you will have compressed to powder significantly causing high pressure resulting in the projectile separating. The wild holes down below will be the skirts of the projectile. You must pull any of these rounds and use the popular 62grn semi w...

Hi Rick, Bullzi pills are no longer available and probably a good thing as they were all over the shop in size. Taipans were very good but I think Malcolm has also retired. Vindicators are very good, although the early batches gave leading problems due to a poor dry lube. I used to tumble them in Le...

Hi Steve, I have a 280 that had a bulged barrel and the quote to replace it was scary. After having a good look at the rear of the barrel with an magnifier, I noticed the barrel and block are in two parts. You can see a faint join line. From there is was fairly easy and by luck I had inherited a ful...

Hi Jakob,
Ok, from your sketch it looks to me that, you need to raise your expander plug as it's crushing the case. Just give the case mouth a very slight flare so the projectile will seat without shaving lead.
Let us know how that goes.

regards
shootaholic

Hi Jakub,
It's hard to tell when the pic of the case is so small, but I think the case mouth may be contacting the shoulder of the expander or the case wall is thicker towards the rim. What brand of brass are you using.
I'm sure we can help
shootaholic

Oldcaster is on the money, the Linotype printing machines of the past had two lead pots, one that poured to make the print slugs and the other was positioned above to automatically top up the bottom pot to maintain the operating level of molten lead and therefore the same pour pressure. This ensured...

Bugger me Zippo, that has given me a migrane.

Hi Zip, your post regards your Dad's muzzle loader was very interesting, it would be good to see a Digi pic of it. I have a FWB History #1 which I use in the Aussie 50m BP match. It's a 40 shot [4 x 10 shot series] on the Mayleigh Cup target. I think the National record is 480. After each shot I use...

Firstly, a lot of new pistols have sights with very fine light gaps, the problem with this is, while in the process of firing a shot your eyes may not pick up that the light gaps are not equal. Manufacturers often supply pistols with very little light gap so you can adjust it to suit your eyes. A wo...

Find a competent machinist and ask him to make you a new one to your dimensions, but ask him to make it longer so as to expand the case to match the length of your projectile. This will prevent a possibly soft projectile getting squashed to under size at the base.

Hi rmca,
Thanks for your help, judging by the number of responses on the link I'm not the only one needing help.
regards

Can anyone help me with attaching digi pics to a post, FC60 asked for pics of my progress with re sleeving a Hammerli 280 barrel.
Cheers

I've had a 1050 since 1989 after competing at the Bianchi Cup. As all wheel gun shooters would agree, misfires are the main downfall in a match. The 1050 has a huge advantage over all other presses in that all operations are done on the down stroke and the primer seating depth is easily adjusted wit...

I sleeved up my Dillon expander to .315 and still find a 98grn HBWC a bit firm to seat. I expect the case springs back after expanding and powder charge drop. The 65grn pills can be pushed almost to full seat, being shorter. I pulled one to check if there is any squashing going on but the as swaged ...

Hi Pistol champ, You mentioned you couldn't get accuracy with a hollow base, I swaged my first 65grn swc yesterday and first impression was, it was very short compared to it's diameter. Maybe adjusting the bearing surface length even though it will end up heavier, may lead to better accuracy. I have...

Greetings from Aus, Firstly Merry Christmas to all and wish you success in your tinkering for ultimate accuracy. Most of you may be experiencing cold and snow but in the West of Australia it was 43 celsius yesterday. Anyway back to the interesting stuff, in a recent post to fc60 I mentioned I have a...

G'day FC60, I'm a Pistol Smith and so have been building PPC revolvers for about 30 years. I build on a model 67 smith with an Aussie made Pulver SS barrel which are extremely high quality, hardened and available in most twists up to 24. We shoot an Australian Service match as well as WA1500 PPC, si...

Hello fellow avid testers, I've only recently come across the great work that you Yanks have been doing with .32acp. I initially thought it was a misprint as no one in Australia has ever considered loading acp cases for a .32 S&W auto. Your results have sparked a new challenge. As I've been swag...

Hi Alex, First take the barrel out and check to make sure there is not a bulge ring, I have seen barrels with 5 wascutters stuck one after another. Next mike your current batch of projectiles, Walthers usually like .314 diam. If a projectile is undersize it will not group. As already mentioned in yo...

An important issue of reloading .32 HBWC's is that they are soft and easily damaged [squashed] when seating. An undersized projectile will shoot eratic groups and probably lead to lead fouling in the bore making the situation even worse. You stated that you were using a variety of S/H brass which if...