Pictorial of making crimped .38S&W shot loads

[J. R. WEEMS]

Plastic

I'd guess the plastic got brittle over time. Although the ones I have are pretty old, too and I have not had that problem.

BAMA
Could be, although they have been protected in the box- a email to Speer might be in order??

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

NECKING DOWN

Great thread guys.
I like to try this to sometime with some 357 brass. The question I have is why neck down the brass?
Then see if I can do the crimp part on my sdb press.

I do it so the 357 brass will fit in a .38special-- Maybe it would work without necking down. Might have to ry that. Did make a .38 special shot shell using a 35 caliber gas check. Have yet to see if this works. Only did this because I have a few thousand of these on hand.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

SPEER UPDATE

Had the occasion to view some CCI factory 38 shot shells this morning-- even though directions said to 'crimp; as normal, there was NO detectable crimp in the CCI shells-- maybe I will try and back off the crimp and see. Would be nice to use these as I have several boxes.

 

[41mag657ss]

JRW
I have some 357 max brass to spare.
Happy to add to this great thread.

 

[Rick61]

My favorite part of the original post is using toilet paper for the wad. If it patterns that well using TP why change?

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

paper

My favorite part of the original post is using toilet paper for the wad. If it patterns that well using TP why change?

my reason why I changed when I could is the fact that the paper is APITA-

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

357 MAX brass Loads up-date

Well, I received some brass from a fine member today, THANKS Jim-- my first attempt was not quite up to snuff. Even after the final crimp, brass ws still just a tad too long to fit. I have 19 more pcs to try and see if it will work. Bext attempt will be to neck down the brass a bit. That may do the trick. More later on this. Will say, all looked good, just a tad long. Am thinking the necking down will work