Reloading for 45 Auto Rim in S&W 1917

[Rick]

Hard for me to find work gloves that I can get on. Can never figure out why they make them so small.

 

[Walks]

Glad leather and rubber stretch. It's a LOT Harder to get my Past XL shooting glove on then it is to get it off.

 

[RicinYakima]

IMHO, modern clothing and shoes are sized to fashion designers who have never held anything heavier than a iPad or a pencil. Even Filson, the historic maker of clothes from Seattle for the Alaskan Gold Rush, now make shirts with the sleeves so narrow you can not get your arms in them. The only maker of boots that I know of that is still using their 1904 lasts is White Boots in Spokane. I wear a 9 E in theirs, and 10.5 EEE in every other brand. The numbers may not be what you are used to, but you can usually get gloves and clothes to fit from Duluth Trading Company.

 

[Ian]

Except Duluth, like everyone else, doesn't offer any of their shirts in medium long. Large long will fit two of me inside with an inch to spare on sleeve length. Cabelas made some really nice heavy cotton button down shirts with two flap pockets in Medium Long about 20 years ago but when I wore one to the store nearly ten years ago, no one had ever seen one before.

I quit buying Filson when they moved production to China but still wanted $100 for a dress shirt.

 

[RBHarter]

I take an 18 - 38 long . Even a taylored cut dress shirt fits like a tent with plus 6" at elbows and about 8 at the tails . Pants ..... I have to look for relaxed boot cuts so there room for my gludius maximus .
Gloves Mechanics and Ragwool are about all I get that are even close to fitting ......9 1/2 H boot who even knew there was an H width .

 

[Brad]

I’m pretty average in height and weight so I find it easy to get clothes that fit. Gloves are never and issue and shoes are easy enough, I have slender feet.

Sometimes it pays to be not so stocky?

 

[Bret4207]

I've never owned anything Filson other than a bucket hat my ex-BIL gave me that was too small to start with, but I'm glad to know they run tight now. I take an odd size in coats, be they outdoor or dress. I'm an XL 48/50 across the shoulders and chest but a "Short" down the arms. I'd have made a fine Dwarf in "The Hobbit" I suppose. My grandfather would have laughed and told me to go to his tailors and get things altered to fit. As though I could even find, much less afford, a tailor if I could even stomach the thought! So I "suffer" with sleeves that a a bit too long. If that's the worst thing that happens to me, I'm blessed!

 

[KHornet]

Like Bret, arms are to short for most jackets/shirts compared to
upper body size. Same is true for short fingers, a real pain for
a potter who would love another 1nch of finger length.

Paul

 

[RicinYakima]

When I was a lad many years ago, the music teacher had us put our hands flat on his desk. The kid with the longest fingers went to piano classes. Me with short fat fingers got cornet.

 

[Walks]

That's why I'm such a lousy typist, my pinky is more than a inch shorter then my ring finger. And my trigger finger is an inch shorter then my middle finger. I have deformed hands.

 

[Bret4207]

I have not seen one of those feet measuring gizmos in a store for many years. Closest I've come is a plastic gauge that did only length for kids at a local store. But then, I haven't seen a shoe store that wasn't a discount place in 20 years either. In the old days Mom took us to Kinneys shoes every fall and our feet got fitted with what the gauge said would fit. These days it's go through 11 boxes of shoes and try and find one that fits both feet. Sometimes I swear my left foot is a whole size larger than my right! I don't dare order anything in a boot through the mail anymore because of that.

 

[RBHarter]

Brett a friend of mines dad actually did have one foot that was a perfect 8 1/2 E the other was was a 9 just big enough to force a EEE or a 9 1/2 E . Red Wing would split 2 pairs if he needed them today or special order a correct matched pair 5 days delivered to his door .

Red Wing still has them in the Reno store , I need to find the store in Ft Smith or Hot Springs .

 

[Bret4207]

I honestly haven't seen a name brand shoe store in a couple decades. Like I said, I haven't seen anything but discount shoe stores over that period, but that may be an indication of the economic level of the area I live in. Dirt poor is being generous.

 

[CZ93X62]

Most of my shoes and boots come from Big 5 Sporting Goods.

Steering things back toward the 45 Auto Rim revolvers......I picked up that new Model 625 PC this afternoon. I am happy to report that all 6 throats will not pass a .453" "minus 2 tenths" pin gauge, and did snugly pass that gauge's .452" next-door neighbor. NOW I can make up ammunition to fit those throats, after a 50-round test drive with WWB JHPs to check function.

 

[Brad]

Sounds like a revolver with perfectly sized throats. Bet it shoots well.
How does the forcing cone look?

 

[CZ93X62]

Cone looks smooth and unremarkable.

 

[Walks]

Congrats

 

[Dale53]

Al;
Your new acquisition sounds like a dandy! Both of my 625's had perfect throats as do three others revolvers in my local gun club.

These are superior handguns, IMO.

Dale53

 

[CZ93X62]

It is well-assembled, that was obvious right from the git-go. BOY, is it EVER TIGHT. It needs some shooting to get it to relax. Same story with last months little 642-1, and most other new S&W revolvers I have bought since 1976. Ran solvent into the barrel and chambers, patched that out, and wiped down the exterior. BUT THE FIRST THING--I swapped those HIDEOUS Castro District red/white/blue wooden grip panels for a set of Hogue neoprene. MUCH mo' bettah. It is a 625-8, BTW.

 

[CZ93X62]

I finished up the first couple calibers of Condor Cuddler Test Drives (22 Hornet and 22-250) yesterday afternoon, and got to work last night on 45 Auto Rim bullets in the Lyman 4500. 92/6/2 alloy in my RCBS .452" H&I die finishes at a few tenths over true .452", which has been my default alloy for most of my autopistol bullets for 20+ years.

100 each of Lymans #452460 and #454424 will start the music for the 200 Starline cases that have waited patiently for fill-up. The Speer Manual #13 has some gentle data for the Auto Rim using their butter-soft swaged bullets of similar weights. I have yet to cast any bullets in the #452423 mould I got at the 2018 NCBS meeting. That has waited for 1) Me to heal up and head out to the garage in earnest and 2) the arrival of two new-to-me moulds to justify cranking up the furnace and pouring more bullets. I WILL BE RUSTY--it has been since June 2014 that I have poured a bullet. I do have a BUNCH of bullets in inventory, though--the '460' and '424' are among that lot.

I would have gotten a lot more '460's finished if the Monday Night Football game hadn't been so darn good. I'll hit it again tonight and get the party all started up.