TheOtherErik Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Realoading the other night I had to change my tool head over. In my last session I was loading .40. Took the powder measure off then the tool head. Then opened my cabinent and grabed what I thought were my 38 super dies...I guess I only saw "38" and assumed that it was the right one. put a piece of 38 super brass in the resizeing station and pulled the handle. It resizes.... I notice that that case was buldged at bottom and figgure that it was just a bad case. More over to the powder drop pull the handle to get a inital charge.....CRUNCH my 38 super case looks like a 1 quart funnel! I then pull everything apart and found that i Had put the 38/357 tool head on the machine with the 38 super powder funnel. So now I labled all my tool heads and powder funnels. But the interesting thing is that the 38/357 die sizes smaller than the 38 super die. But a 38/357 case has a bullet diameter of .357 and a 38 super .355 case wall thickness? Guess I could get out the calipers..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 You want fun, have a well-meaning non-reloader give you a five gallon bucket of brass from the range. Mixed 9mm, 40, .38 Super (must have been and IPSC shooter there) and .45. I thought I would go blind before sorting it all, and I still had occasional wrong ones in the mix when I went to reload. Just to make it even more fun, I found a few .380 autos in the 9mm bin when I reloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherErik Posted March 27, 2003 Author Share Posted March 27, 2003 Another thing...allways check ther headstamp of 38 super cases. Ive been marking the rebate with a felt pen. Other shooters picked up a bunch of brass with my mark on it. but aparently some one else shooting on the range uses the same color on the same place. After I loaded a few hundred I notrice that I had a few super comp cases in the mix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 And then there was the class I took where one of hte other shooters was using 9x23 brass while the rest of us shot .38 Super. Never said a thing. I sorted it out when I tried to jam the first 9x23 case itno my .38 Super sizing die. Luckily I'd kept that batch seperate, and hadn't thrown it into the general Super bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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