Mine was a loaded question....

I have loaded my own cast lead for 50 years with good success. Since my lead supply is diminishing I decided to use some store bought bullets to supplement my own. My indoor range requires lead, so I figured the plated would suffice for outdoors, and thus extend my supply.

I tried them first in 357 and 38. Worked well. Then I tried 45. Worked well again.

Then, because of my lack of patience, I bought a supply of 380, 9mm and 41. No problem until I used the 41.

Horrible shotgun accuracy. Its a Model 57 with a low count and its been flawless for 20 years. I checked the bullets and they were 0.409. Berry's says that's within the spec tolerance. Oh ****. All my other home brews are 0.410 and they work fine.

So, in my PO'd mind I went back and checked all of my other 3000 rounds on hand, and found every caliber was about 0.001" below specs. In other words, a .45 miked out at 0.451.

Apparently, the other guns could live with the undersize, but my beloved 57 could not.

Any comments now with the full story?