Gents,
The original idea of this question was referring to using an original style bullet..
I have good luck with the Laser cast bullet as it is a rather short bullet and is fully contained in the neck of the sized case of the cowboy dies. Moving to The lyman 427098 or the RCBS 44 200, they are much longer bullets than the laser cast, the LC is .604 long, the lyman is.645 and the RCBS comes in at .714 in length, and the bottom driving band exceeds the the neck and goes into the body of the case and so the full length of the bullet is unsupported by the neck, and is relying on only the crimp to do the job. In some revolvers I wind up with a lot of flyers in a group using these longer bullets, and the Laser cast shoots nice little groups.
I have had terrible luck in using .429 bullets and brass loss was becoming too great due to over working the necks and splitting them, so went back to no more than .428 sized and lubed. I know it is only .001, but it makes a difference by the 4th or 5th reload.
I spoke to RCBS about this, and the gent I spoke with was surprised at how short the neck was on their chamber drawings in comparison to the original dimension.
Like I said, I would like to use an original style bullet and not have to load cartridges for 5 different guns. In some revolvers, a sized and crimped case with no bullet will have to lightly nudged into some cylinders due to the longer forward shoulder position, hence my original question of shortening the sizer to get back to the original neck length and shoulder position.
Thanks
So if anyone is using an original style bullet and has shortened their die to accomadate it, how much did you need to shave off to achieve the desired results