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Old 04-12-2017, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by muddocktor View Post
Wise A, 357 brass doesn't shorten with use, it grows. And the same for 44 Mag brass too. It doesn't react like semi auto brass.
Rimmed, rimless, necked--they all do both, depending on conditions. Sometimes I'm shocked at what people subject their brass to. Ordinarily, though--yes, you'd be more apt to see it in a mouth-headspacing rimless case.

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Originally Posted by TAROMAN
Try this:
Get a Lyman "M" expander die.
It's made for loading lead and expands the case deeper.
What I use to load 357 wadcutters, Never a problem.
The RCBS die is made for loading jacketed bullets.
More "flare" isn't the solution.
I would typically agree, but the problem isn't that the expansion/belling isn't deep enough, it's that the case mouth isn't opened up wide enough. I'd have to be there to run my Finger-ometer over them, but the cases in the picture barely look like they've been expanded at all.
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