Like the title states guys is a little bit of a belly in the bullet (brass) okay? I notice it with the bullets I'm making (.40 155 grain lead bullet, various brass cci small primer). I compared it tp a factory federal fmj and noticed that the fmj bullet was straight. No belly or slight groove in the brass. Any thoughts?
Belly in the bullet normal?
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Durn, I wish folks could at least put the effort into learning (and using) the correct nomenclature - the bullet is the pointy thingee that flies out the end of the tubie thingy, and the case is the shiny thingee that you first put the bullet into and then put the shiny thingy with the pointy thingy together into the hollow place in the back end of the gun. Got it?
Sorry to be snarky, but come on guys. I cannot believe someone is attempting to reload ammo and does not know which is the bullet, which is the case, and what constitutes a cartridge. Please try.
Sorry to be snarky, but come on guys. I cannot believe someone is attempting to reload ammo and does not know which is the bullet, which is the case, and what constitutes a cartridge. Please try.
Sounds like he is saying the case has been sized small and the bullet is expanding the case, leaving a noticable waist under the bullet. Ok, so long as the bullet (that pointy thing) is .355 and not 357.
Not unusual. If it feeds, chambers and fires, it is good.
Not unusual. If it feeds, chambers and fires, it is good.
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Too much crimp?
Other than that they look fine.
Other than that they look fine.
Those don't look terrible to me. If you have the gun handy that you're going to run them in, break it down. Using just the barrel out of the gun, drop your reloads in the chamber to see if they go. Doesn't take long to do, and if they drop in and out without forcing them, they should run fine. Check all your reloads this way until you get used to what will work and what won't. It's an easy way to save a bunch of frustration at the range if there is a problem.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Thanks for the concern, PBNJ.
Members of this forum crap all over a 'journalist' when they say "clip" instead of "magazine", and scream when an AK - 47 is called a machine gun, but folks who supposedly have studied the manual sufficiently to multi-guess a pass on the CFSC can't call a cartridge a cartridge?
One of the subconcious ways in which we assess the expertise of an individual in a particular discipline is by whether or not they use the jargon correctly. Unfriendly experts viewing this forum - and they exist, don't they officer? - correctly get the opinion that a large number of members of CGN, who are gun owners, are less than proficient. Such an opinion will be reflected in the advice they give our enemies, the gun grabbers.
Plus, when I was a working professional, it was nice to be able to discuss things of mutual interest with other professionals, correctly using the jargon of the subject at hand. To me, it would enhance the enjoyment of CGN, if everyone strove to use the correct terminology, or to admit that they know not the correct term, and make it plain they are extemporizing. Obese chance.
Members of this forum crap all over a 'journalist' when they say "clip" instead of "magazine", and scream when an AK - 47 is called a machine gun, but folks who supposedly have studied the manual sufficiently to multi-guess a pass on the CFSC can't call a cartridge a cartridge?
One of the subconcious ways in which we assess the expertise of an individual in a particular discipline is by whether or not they use the jargon correctly. Unfriendly experts viewing this forum - and they exist, don't they officer? - correctly get the opinion that a large number of members of CGN, who are gun owners, are less than proficient. Such an opinion will be reflected in the advice they give our enemies, the gun grabbers.
Plus, when I was a working professional, it was nice to be able to discuss things of mutual interest with other professionals, correctly using the jargon of the subject at hand. To me, it would enhance the enjoyment of CGN, if everyone strove to use the correct terminology, or to admit that they know not the correct term, and make it plain they are extemporizing. Obese chance.
This was my experience -At the time, the club where I shoot was dominated by grumpy old guys whose idea of advice consisted of ridicule and sarcasm, so I decided to (safely) find out for myself. i.e. I had to try out suspiciously-bulgy reloads in the chamber, removed from the gun. I didn't think to check with CGN
. Now, I can look at the loaded round and decide intuitively whether it'll fit without forcing, if at all. It happens about once every 500th bullet - probably oversized ones that got mixed in accidentally. I shoot exclusively cast SWC/WC.
