Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655

Gospel is to resize. With pistol brass I very rarely do. If there are dings in case mouth then pretty much have to. I generally loaded virgin national match brass for high power matches straight out of the box and it never failed me in a match. Thin brass like 38-40 and 44-40 is pretty easy to damage case mouths in shipping and handling. Having said that I check my cases if case mouth is round straight out of the bag I load and go. Prime expand case mouth add powder in lots of 50 to loading block visually inspect all for powder and proper level, then seat bullets and package for matches Again Gospel is to resize initially trim and chamfer as necessary

If you want to loose your house car guns and most of your money go for it. This assumes you are married temporarily as if you are caught you will not be.

Have purchased 3 or 4 from them never a problem but ymmv

If you can find a Muslin shirt they work pretty good.

Come to EOT and there will be weather for sure! Nice, too hot, too cold, too dry too rain snow hail dusty muddy or all of the above in one day

I will take em both

Signed up to be notified for both 44-40 and 45-70.

My Chinchester 87 works great full disclosure LASSITER did his magic on it. Works great with federal, winchester, remington shells ejects with no problem if I do my part. The lever is designed to be worked not limp wristed babied on opening. There is one Issue Fiocci Clear plastic shells do not eject, they are some what longer than the normal run of the mill shells like federal, remmington or winchester. I have taken to roll crimping as I have a bunch of the clear fiocci hulls from shooting sporting clays. I have also found the old hand cranked antique roll crimpers actually do as well in terms of crimp and time to crimp as the drill press mounted crimping tool and hull vise. YMMV. The 1887s are really fun and hey super style points awarded every match as well.

Top edge of brass scraping can sometimes be related to not having enough roll crimp so that the front of the brass has a bit of a radius to it.

Thank you who ever saved me from myself

Good question might be why I mostly shoot a 92

very tempting

When was the last time you saw John Wayne using one? Nuff Sed

damn missed it, need to check the wire 3 times a day rather than every 3 days.