Glad your loads are feeding properly. If you have a 200 SWC mold, these have been excellent
shooters for most and stretch your alloy supply 15% farther than the 230s. The H&G 68 and clones
are highly recommended, with the 452460 just a squeak worse on feeding reliability, although this
is gun and mazazine dependent. The 452460 is usually a bit more accurate for me, but not in all
guns.
That RCBS TC die is the correct setup for a proper, tight but SHORT taper crimp which smooths
feeding and chambering without causing issues with sizing down the bullet. Apparently Redding
and Hornady current production TC dies are an extremely long taper, and are not really suitable
for more than .470-ish crimp, which causes some reliability issues in some guns, both feeding and
chambering.
Still learning about the loading tools out there......the differences in taper crimp dies is quite
surprising, producing entirely different results, and IMO, not in a good way.
Here is an image of one of my loaded rounds. This has a .464 TC right at the case mouth, although
it is difficult to measure because it is a relatively rapid taper. The area of the case which is smaller
than .470 is probably only .010-.020" long axially or so. This will feed with 100% reliability
in all my 1911s. This is a commercial cast version of the H&G 68, 1.250 LOA.
Bill