woodpile":3cm3e50f said:Sorry about the delay. The lee book lists oal as 1.150. Steve
810wmb":j8l6o2a7 said:another quick question please - what is the book giving as an overall length on these?
revhigh":22k4zjki said:810wmb":22k4zjki said:another quick question please - what is the book giving as an overall length on these?
Hey 810,
Just as a point of information, I use those same weight bullets from Mastercast (truncated cone), and this is something that I've learned. If you load these toward the longer side of the COL range, you 'may' have trouble unloading a chambered round, if you need to do it.
By the way ... Alliant Power Pistol powder is spectacular with those bullets. You may want to give it a try if you want to try a different powder.
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810wmb":34yz1amz said:i just took the barrel out of my cz. they drop in and out easily. no sticking at all.
revhigh":wvjj7dhe said:810wmb":wvjj7dhe said:i just took the barrel out of my cz. they drop in and out easily. no sticking at all.
You need to actually chamber a round to tell for sure .... simply dropping a round into the chamber while holding the barrel won't tell you whether or not what I mentioned will happen. The breechface 'may' push the bullet into the lands when going into battery, which dropping a bullet into the chamber won't.
Incidentally, the gun that I experienced this with was a CZ75B.
I'd check it MY way to be absolutely sure ....
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revhigh":1447ho1v said:Sounds like you're good to go !
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revhigh":or7648is said:810wmb":or7648is said:I found this out the hard way. What happens is this. With the shape of those truncated cone bullets, if they're loaded toward the long end of the COL range, the bullet will/may actually contact the lands and grooves of the rifling when the round chambers. This has the effect of making the bullet 'stick' in the barrel before firing. If you now need to eject an unfired round, it can be difficult if not impossible to pull the slide back since the bullet's soft lead nose is jammed into the rifling.
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Hammerdown77":2dxf0u9a said:COL from a manual means nothing unless you have that exact (or really darn close) bullet style/shape. Proceed with caution.