Chest Rockwell wrote:Jehler...another question.
I have recently been cooking up several different recipes to pattern next week. I tried to reload LS2 #13 (Fed paper bw) and ran into problems. It seems the hulls doesn't have enough volume to take that much of a powder charger. Have you (or anybody else) tried this load. I then backed down to #11 and had the same probs. When I went to dump the shot into the wad...I could instantly tell I was going to be short on space for a good crimp. Hope this makes sense.
I ended up using #15....and it seems 35 grains is the max this hull will allow.
I did end up buying some of the Cheds...had zero probs with them.
Thanks again
Chest
I have only a little experience with the lightning steel loads. I would have to go look at the book to know what lapds your talking about but Im gonna assume they were the 7/8 loads? Those are the only ones I have had problems with. The solution is to put an assload of was pressure on to the wad when the shot is already in the wad. I put a plastic cap from a tube of something or other into the drop tube of my size masters to do this. Also, could be that paper was was wet and expanded. Could be the base in those gulls are a little taller than what the recipe was written with. There is lots of inconsistencies in hulls, even of the same manufacture. If you can't get it let me know, I'll give you the email of the guy that wrote the lightning steel load, he will be holy to give you a cal and talk ya through it, real nice guy