N555. I've found exactly 83 .303 British cases in the last year, and they are once shot. I haven't been able to find any bullets around here. Seems no one is making what I want. I didn't want to pay $1.20 a round off the shelf 14 or so years ago, and I had what I needed to reload it. There used to be a place down in the Lewiston Valley where I could buy the bullets by weight, and cases were easy to find. By double squib I mean the first round squibed and neither of us noticed. She squeezed again, and that first squib apparently blocked the second one. To the best of my knowledge, the second one was not a squib. It appeared to be right up against the first round. I wasn't able to rotate the cylinder, as the second bullet was just back enough to block it. Even my 'smith had a hard time getting it clear. He was surprised to find a second round. She was firing .38 light loads in a .357 pistol, and the smith said it was still good to go. I'm using a brand-new replacement Lee auto disk powder measure with the charge block. I've checked it every way I could think of. I even put a piece of duct tape across the hopper so it couldn't rotate with the vibrations of the press and start doing reduced charges. New bench. Half the dies are new. New digital scale. New micrometer. I tried to eliminate every mechanical error. Leaving only problem between chair and press. Currently, I'm halfway between loading the next hundred .38 on the progressive or on the turret press.
And the weather is getting nice, and I have to lengthen my Flag pole. My POW-MIA flag keeps catching on my deck roof at half staff.
You guys have convinced me to give it another try. I'll roll up 100 .38 and if that goes well, then roll up 100 9 mm and see where things are then. The 9 mm was where most of the squibs were.
Scotty.
