CZ93X62
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Congrats on the FINE Win 1892 and that wonderful Lyman rear sight.
So far, I have not acquired a 38/40 WCF firearm......but not for lack of trying. With restoration of my health now well under way, I might take that hunt back up.
One caution about the Lyman #401043 bullet......it has the same absence of a crimping groove that besets the #311008 for 32/20 WCF applications and the #427098 for the 44/40. You can "wrap" a roll crimp around the bullet ogive easily enough, but the bullet base was meant to be supported by a column of compressed black powder in the cartridge's OEM form. Under the shunting passage of a cartridge down a tubular magazine, most smokeless powder charges lack the bulk to form this required support column. If you want to use smokeless powders, I have resorted to two methods--and NOT to the Lee Factory Crimp Die.
1) Utilize a bullet mould form that includes a roll crimp groove. In 44/40, I used SAECO #446; in 32/20, I designed my own via Mountain Molds.
2) Use a bulky black powder substitute fuel, like that used by the late John Kort--RL-7. I have used 25.0 grains in 44/40 and 12.5 grains in 32/20 in both rifles and revolvers. It leaves behind a few powder granule zombies in revolver barrels, but burns pretty clean in rifle barrels. CCI 500 and 300 pistol primers got the call in both calibers. Black powder ballistics resulted in both calibers, with zero signs of excessive pressure.
So far, I have not acquired a 38/40 WCF firearm......but not for lack of trying. With restoration of my health now well under way, I might take that hunt back up.
One caution about the Lyman #401043 bullet......it has the same absence of a crimping groove that besets the #311008 for 32/20 WCF applications and the #427098 for the 44/40. You can "wrap" a roll crimp around the bullet ogive easily enough, but the bullet base was meant to be supported by a column of compressed black powder in the cartridge's OEM form. Under the shunting passage of a cartridge down a tubular magazine, most smokeless powder charges lack the bulk to form this required support column. If you want to use smokeless powders, I have resorted to two methods--and NOT to the Lee Factory Crimp Die.
1) Utilize a bullet mould form that includes a roll crimp groove. In 44/40, I used SAECO #446; in 32/20, I designed my own via Mountain Molds.
2) Use a bulky black powder substitute fuel, like that used by the late John Kort--RL-7. I have used 25.0 grains in 44/40 and 12.5 grains in 32/20 in both rifles and revolvers. It leaves behind a few powder granule zombies in revolver barrels, but burns pretty clean in rifle barrels. CCI 500 and 300 pistol primers got the call in both calibers. Black powder ballistics resulted in both calibers, with zero signs of excessive pressure.