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Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/02/2015 12:02 AM
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Mr. Linebaugh, In your article http://www.customsixguns.com/writings/dissolving_the_myth.htmyou talk about the Blackhawk .45 colt chambers being sized too big. "Grossly oversized" I haven't tried this but was wondering if it would be a good idea to: fire form the case, don't resize the whole case, only resize enough of the neck (however deep your bullet goes into the case)to hold the bullet and give you the neck tension and then crimp? Would this help get more life from the cases and give a better gas seal for hopefully better groups from the guns? Has anybody else tried this? Results?
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/02/2015 12:31 AM
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Neck sizing will work fine as long as you don't have more than the one gun to shoot the handloads in. Not sure every gun is guilty of large chambers. Fired cases come out of my Bisley at .478 and go in at .473 at the mouth but are .467 midway so if anyting I'd say the sizer is more to blame than the chambers in that instance. Some makes of brass is thinner than others so I think they tend to overcompensate.
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/02/2015 1:54 AM
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This is something I do with a couple of my Rugers...it seems many of their chambers are large
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/02/2015 2:41 AM
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Mine were small and I had them reamed.
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/02/2015 11:46 AM
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Badubet, John was speaking of the chambers, not the throats. The chambers of most Ruger 45s these days are MUCH better than when John wrote that article. There is really no need for custom building a 6 shot 45 anymore. Brass working is not too bad and the throat issue is an easy fix. I haven't seen any that didn't shoot well.
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/03/2015 5:24 AM
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Ah. You are correct Glenn.
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Re: Mr. Linebaugh .45 colt question
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09/03/2015 1:33 PM
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This is something I do with a couple of my Rugers...it seems many of their chambers are large Does this process help with accuracy? or no big deal? From some of the clues in the article it seems to be about 25 years old which is old to some I'm sure, but not so much to me
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09/04/2015 12:22 PM
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Okay: The article talks about the Blackhawk chambers being sized .486-.490
My chambers are .479 and the resized brass is, .4755
Not an issue, actually pretty darn good.
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09/05/2015 11:25 AM
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