444 leverlution brass

[ZAMESB]

hi was gonna reload some 444 and noticed that the hornandy leverlution brass is shorter the the regular remington brass is there gonna be a problem if i load just regular jsp

 

[TReX300]

I wouldn't think so if it's shorter. How much? You'd have to adjust your seating depth to allow for the shorter case when crimping.

Tim

 

[Rugerman]

I ran into the same problem reloading for my son's .444 Marlin. You can do it safely but the OAL is shorter and I wonder how that will affect accuracy. Hornady has supposedly released the bullets to reload in those particular cases but I haven't seen them yet.
We reloaded some lead bullets for practice and seated them out to the "normal" length and fired them singly w/o a crimp. Not a problem. For the moment we have decided to set these cases aside until we can get the Leverlution bullets.

 

[DIGGER2]

With my 45-70 lever evolution empties I believe that that were about a .100" shorter than the standard brass. I just threw them out and stuck with the factory length brass. But if you want to reload & shoot the lever evolution bullets (FTX I believe) keep them around.