The adventure continues!

by Dennis, Sunday, July 08, 2012, 15:53 (4522 days ago) @ Dave B

Dave,just a little follow up and a big thank you. Your intrest in the FA M 83 in .454 has me rechecking and relearning or just learning a few things. My new starline brass measures 1.372 out of the box with Speer recomding max length at 1.3...83 and trim to length at 1.373 these are perfect, BUT with the LBT's loaded into this brass my OACL is 1.789 and once again Speer recomends OACL at 1.680. These rounds are the max. my revolver will chamber and I have had a few boolits move and not tie up the gun but I did have to asisit the cyl rotation.As of now these are the only loaded rounds I have on hand but will load some others in other brass. I did measure my older many times reloaded R/P brass and it came out considerably shorter at 1.360 and I will from now on use this brass for the LBT's exclusively and if I decide to use the starline I will trim it down to or near this length. As I do more research I will keep in touch. Your friend Dennis