OAL to long.. now what?

[350skylark]

I made a few batches of 45 to try out in my 1911, all 230 grn lrn with 5.0 grains of win. 231 but different oal to find which ones cycle best, 1.23 1.24 and 1.26, they all did the plunk test in the barrel so i made 20 of each and one dummy load of each to cycle them, the 1.26 jams up every time, it wont seat into battery in the pistol. Can i just run all of the rounds threw the seating die, again without any trouble? would i have to re-crimp? i know should have cycled the rounds before making them all but i only made 20 so no big deal.

[Gutz]

I'd be a bit leery about doing that with live ammo. But I'm no reloading pro by any means. Just my 2 cents.

[Ferrum]

I don't think it's an issue.... You seated and crimped them while they were charged, just seat them a little further.

[mindwreck]

of course you can reseat them. When you make the rounds your seating them with powder in the first place.

[NiteQwill]

Reseat away!

1.250 OAL has always worked across my 45s. YMMV

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[Colt562]

yes you can push them down further. What I do to help the process is to use a factory piece of ammunition that runs through my gun well and put that in the seating station and screw in the die until it touches the top of the bullet. I crimp seperatly.

[TKM]

Did you check to see if you can load the magazine at each oal?

I loaded some (300) long and after 5 rounds they would jam solid in the mag.

Ran those through my 625 so I wasn't looking at a lot of work. It could have really sucked.

[call-in]

Depends on how much crimp was applied, if you just crimp enough to remove the flare, then you could get away with reseating them. If you crimped more then you might shave some lead off and make them undersized bullets.

Totally your call.

[Excaliburr]

just re-seat and don't worry about it. It has been done many times by many of us out here in re-load land. You seated it the first time with powder and primers didn't you? Why would there be any concern. If you used a light tapered crimp, then you shouldn't shave any lead. Many of us do not crimp .45ACP at all in the first place as the case headspaces on the mouth anyway.

[damndave]

Yes go ahead and just throw them back in the seating die.

The only time I wouldn't mess with it is when you need to seat a high primer. In that case I would pull it.

[J-cat]

Why? It's the same thing. Push it in deeper.

[koehn,jim]

Next time you might want to strip the weapon and try the bullets in the barrell before making more. I keep a spare colt barrell with my press and check for fit with it.

[Enter_the_Dragon]

You're gtg with re-seating the bullet

[Bill Steele]

As Colin pointed out, depending on the crimp, you may shave some lead. If you do, just run your finger nail around the mouth of the case to remove the shaved lead as it can inhibit you newly seated round from feeding all the way in, leading to false negatives.

What is likely happening is the bearing surface of the bullet is jamming in the throat. That is why seating deeper will allow your gun to go into battery. If/when you pickup some jacketed RN they will likely feed at that length.

Good luck, have fun.

[350skylark]

sorry i forgot to mention that i did crimp them a little bit and that was my concern for it. if some lead is shaven is it a problem?