What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[NHshtr]

Need a bit of advice!
I am having trouble feeding .44 mag lead 240 grain SWC with a COAL greater than 1.600 in my (newly acquired ) Henry carbine. Lyman manual and Hodgdon show 1.645" and 1.620" respectively in their tables. All the copper loads are 1.600 and I had no trouble with those.
First time I've loaded lead SWCs in a rifle, so I was wondering if anyone has had the same experience.

[Vaquero]

I have an older BBB 44 and it cycles swc's no problem.
I have even loaded some heavy cast, and never a problem.
I don't recall the OAL.

RP

[Headhog]

Some lever guns will handle SWC bullets and some won't. My Marling 1894 in 45 Colt will feed my 200 gr SWC lead bullets all day long. On the other hand my Winchester 94 does not like those loads. It will feed a few rounds then one will hang up while chambering. Now if I give that Winchester the Missouri 250 gr RNFP bullet, it will crank those through as fast as you can operate the lever.

My 357 Mag Henry BBS and Rossi R92, feed whatever I put on the magazine. I've even tried 357 Mag brass with full wadcutters and both rifles would feed them, but the Rossi would hesitate once in awhile.

Sometimes it just the nature of the beast.

Paul

[Travlin]

Easy explanation, The Winchester 94 was designed by John Browning for rifle rounds , 38-55, 32-40, 30-30  etc. The marlin 94 was made to take the shorter pistol rounds .

[NHshtr]

Thanks for the responses.
I should have started a new topic on this subject and not take this one-off topic. I'll do that now.

[Rifletom]

Have 80 cases of 30-30 sized, trimmed and primed. Went out to the shop to drop powder about 10 am. Forget that! Back to the house, wait on baseball[early game!]. They'll wait.

[Vaquero]

Have 80 cases of 30-30 sized, trimmed and primed. Went out to the shop to drop powder about 10 am. Forget that! Back to the house, wait on baseball[early game!]. They'll wait.

And the reason I'm glad I do mine back in the man cave.
Heat and/or AC

RP

[Travlin]

I do my loading in a 6 ft. X 6ft. room out in my detached Garage/shop. I put in a wood floor over the concrete and An AC unit in the wall so even when it's in the nineties no problem.

[Rifletom]

Thought about A/C in the shop, but, I usually load in Fall, Winter and Spring, so, normally good on things. I'll just wait it out, Fall around the corner.
Well, it is now beer time!

[Travlin]

Actually the loading room ac unit was bought to be used in our kitchen window to be run by the Generac when we have prolonged power outages from a named storm. I has only happened once but went on for six days so we lived in the back of the house. It was not too much of a hardship and the generator is pure sign wave so we could use the computer. Using the emergency ac in the reloading room keeps it working some instead of just sitting and becoming nonfunctional.