jo w

thanks guys, it was the primer slide piece. put the small pistol one in and all is good. what a moron!

(maybe on the shuttle that moves the primers from the feed tube to under the cartridge) dammit- i think that was it. thanks

i have shot .45 acp these past few years, and decided to return to .38 special for local range fun for a while. i have a dillon square deal b, federal small pistol primers , clean winchester brass and rainier 158 gn rn bullets. i have to use federal primers due to some trigger work i did on the 686. the initial reloading session was very frustrating, at least 60% off the rounds required very heavy seating, and 20% of the rounds produced were defective. primers weren't seated properly, mashed in the primer seat, twisted and seated askew, or high primers that wouldn't seat with extra help. i seem to remember this was an issue too when i first reloaded for .38 special, but it can't be normal. any help? thanks

i think i have one of his earlier prototypes i bought from a fellow shooter when i first started uspsa 5 or 6 years ago. i love that i don't have to think about where my hand has to go, it's all right there. i use it for my 625

ok- that's friggin funny-

Thanks for the replies, I'll bump it up a bit and see what that does for fouling. JW

I'll preface this by stating that I'm fairly new to reloading and shooting,maybe 2 years into it. Have a SDB and started loading for .45 this year after loading for .38 for the year before. I'm shooting a 625-6 W 5" barrel. So the problem I have is fairly new. I use Tite Group powder, always have and for no reason than that's what was recommended when I started reloading. . Recently I have had much more dirt and fouling while shooting, so much so that I have to clean the gun every other stage or my moon clips won't slide in and/or eject easily.. I've had fouling under the star ejector and in the chambers. I use 230gn Rainier round nose, starline brass and federal primers. Because I use plated bullets at this time I load on the light end, e.g 10 % down from low end data. So I load @ 4.1 gn tite group. The soiling and fouling did not occur to this degree when I was using 200 gn Rainer RN and tite group. It's not unburnt powder. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks- JW

I can do $25. Jo but you have to walk me through contacting him, I am a Luddite when it comes to technology.