I'm using 4.5gr of Bullseye with Missouri hard cast 158gr SWC's in 357 cases. That puts me at a +P load in my 4" M-19. I've also had good luck with Dardas 148gr wadcutters over 6.0gr of Unique in the same cases.
Chainsaw bar oil is whatever comes through the pipeline that's in the transition zone. Add a tackifier and you have bar lube. So you really don't know what's in the oil.
My old Contender sports a custom walnut stock set from Tony's. Barrels are a 357 Herrett and 218 Bee, both 14" bull. Optics are glass on the Bee and reflex on the Herrett.
I use a Lyman "M" die to flare the Herrett and use hard cast 158g SWC's for practice. Deer loads are 180gr Hornady's.
The...
Factory ammo, or reloads? I have an Ithaca M37 that has an undersized section in the magazine tube near the receiver. Factory shells function OK but reloads with the head diameter approaching max spec causes them to stick.
I broke the priming arm off my Rockchucker (don't ask.) I emailed RCBS asking if I could buy a new arm without the primer tubes.
They mailed me a new primer arm gratis.
I'm not home to look, but.....
IIRR (and I may be wrong) older RCBS dies all came in green boxes. Carbide die sets had a yellow label and non-carbide sets had a white label.
After looking at and handling a lot of small handguns I settled on the Shield .40, mostly because it fit my hand best and pointed easily. I figure I'll run a few hundred round through it first then decide if I'll put a trigger kit in it.
I'm going to throw another option into the mix......
If the OP also wants a Springfield or other 1911, you can go with a 22/45 conversion kit.
You shoot the same frame & same trigger, and the Nelson kit I have will shoot dime-sized groups at 25 yards (off the bench - no me!)
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