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in my case, the upper frame was arched like the Rialto bridge, but not broken.
I believe this is due to the S&W steel forging process, even though it was just a J frame_
certainly an N frame is...

the images below were provided by fermech_
I limited myself to transferring them here, but the credit (and my thanks) for the research goes to him_
the images are in low resolution to be able to...

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...as K98k aficionado, I understand and fully agree_
jumpin'from a plane, motorcycles, guns, in my experience have been and are all lovable things: my stupidity or plain greenhornery sometime...

racepres,
to start: I choose my nickname based on my first-try blow-up_
the meaning of my interest is similar to my interest in the causes of the parachute's failure to fully open on my seventh...

I have two snubs only, but they are just a 27-2 3.5"bbl. and a 19-4 2.5"bbl._
the 27 allows for reasonably accurate DA cycling with .357mag. quite difficult to obtain with my 19, unless downgrading...

I believe that .380auto and .45acp are to be preferred especially for the low original speeds even with j.bullets, therefore not excessively reduced performances even with cast.
personally I would...

TL-452-230-2R #90358: this six cav. Lee mold has worked without problems even on my HK45_
easy to cast, easy to feed, easy to shoot_
cheap, boring reliable, reasonably accurate even in my hands,...

...thanks, racepres: your observation also makes sense about what I find difficult to express in suitable terms, this without prejudice to the fact that in my blow-up one or more wrong loads played...

thank you for taking into consideration my hypothesis, formulated by me, admittedly ignorant today as just under 24 years ago_ I can only add that a 2" barrel like mine would hardly have shown...

It happened to me the first time I reloaded_
36 Chief, 2"_
I still wonder today if a double charge under a hollow base wad cutter could have created a squib, melting the center of the wad cutter,...

...not only is it not dangerous, but for plinking it is certainly less stressful for revolver and shooter - the point is to use powders that safely allow this_

if the thickness of the brass is not homogeneous, especially on the neck, and this is achieved by reaming the inside and turning the outside, if and when possible, they are not decisive, but only...

without if: I wanted a lever, and I wanted a .444_
and that's what I chose_

what I have. 2002 and 2003_
low res., because the site doesn't allow me high res._
if interested, I can e-mail PDF_ maybe it can help_

Gentlemen, thank you ALL for the almost unanimous answers !
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...same lenght of wave about Fiocchi, here_ and I avoid S&B, too, counting that I don't shoot 9mm, but .357 and .44magnum only, today_ thanks!

I've some boxes of CBC once fired .44magnum cases_
never used CBC ammo or brass, I know nothin'about them_
Is it worth handloading them, or better sending them to the recycler?
opinions...

for sure before produced before 2002_

strange thing: I hated and I hate motorcycle helmets, but I've always used glasses on motorbikes, and I can't stand to use my industrial vacuum cleaner without shooting hearmuffs...

just in case: I happened to partially crack a Lee wooden handle longitudinally, starting from the part closest to the heat.
I closed it tight with two opposing stainless hose clamps: fast & ugly,...

...just today my glasses stopped a splash of boiling water: I had slipped a potato into it_ enough said

my only .45 acp mold has been and it's the TL-452-230-2R #90358: never gave me feeding problems_

the problem can occur on new cases as well as on used ones, although for different reasons_
the Sinclair Primer Pocket Uniformer it's my fool-proof insurance against shallow/uneven primer pockets,...

for what I can, uniformity is the keyword. since the start_
sizing new it's a must, in my book_