shooting cast bullets in the Luger

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Originally Posted by noylj

My P-08s all feed 0.357-0.358" SWCs just fine. The COL is such that the shoulder just misses the lede/rifling. Chambers all seem more that large enough (OD) for the case to drop in. The only feeding problem I have ever had was a round stuck and action wouldn't close. When I get the round out, there was that darn ridge halfway around the case just above the extractor groove. Case must have had a slight bulge and the sizing die simply raised a ridge. I now run all my range pick-up through the Lee Bulge Buster and a Lee 9mm Mak FCD.
I am always reading about people who have tight chambers in their 9x19s that can't feed a 0.357-0.358" bullet. I would love to see one of these guns some day. Would love to try loading for such a gun.

Hi:

Our issue is that we load our bullets out, to say, 29mm (1.14 inches) O.A.L., or so, so as to allow the proper feeding of eight full rounds without jamming.

You seem to be loading much deeper (.45 Automatic style). I've never tried this, again, because my Lugers will not feed eight full rounds positively with such short cartridges. By the time you load that deeply and roll crimp a bit, its really hard to say what the actual remaining diameter of the lead bullet is in the cartridge itself.

Again, there are SWC bullet types that I have found perfectly reliable when loaded out to 29mm O.A.L.. I do enjoy shooting these, because of the perfectly round holes they leave in my paper targets.

This may help to explain things a bit.


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