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Posted: 1/5/2014 6:39:05 PM EDT
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I just started to reload again after moving. All of my reloading stuff was in boxes and took everything out. Cleaned everything and lube where needed. I loaded LG pistol primer in the feeding tube and it failed to load the primer on the bar. Cleaned and adjusted the primer tube and it still failed to load primer took about 1/2 to get to work right. Then i loaded about 5 45acp round and checked them with the Dillon gage for proper fit but it would not fit. I double checked everythingand all was fine. Then I check the cast bullets and guess what? I never resized the cast bullets to .452, what a big mistake that was. I thought I resized alll of my casting before I put them away. A lesson learned and a waste of time, now I have to check all my brass and casting for proper fit. I have about in total in different caliber brass and lead bullets I mean thousands of them going to be very busy double checking it all. The mistake I made was not to labeling what was done. It's a lesson learned the hard way.
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I hear ya OP. For some reason, back in the day, I primed a bunch of cases, but didn't load them. Then somewhere along the line, I decided to toss a few hundred of them into my bucket of brass to be processed. I now have to inspect every piece of 4 gallons of brass for a live primer. 
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Try dropping some in a 1911 barrel - I don't cast - about 15% of my .45 acp won't go into case gauge (last .125") so won't fully seat in my S&W 625 but 1911 eats them all day long. ^^^This^^^ Take the barrel out of your pistol and use it as a gauge. If they fit in the pistol you are GTG. I have over 15 handguns in 7 different cartridges and I don't own a single case gauge. Never found the need. All my handloads fit-n-feed in all my handguns. I could care less what a case gauge has to tell me. YMMV |
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