Well Scrubby,,
you asked for it. When I started shooting 38-40, B/P of course.I ended up with pistol rounds and rifle rounds. Couldn't figure out why. Whenever I'd reload a batch, I'd have to separate them. Talked to a guy, try Hornaday, (I'm using RCBS). Nope! Talk to another guy, also told him about having to squeeze my lever a little harder when I levered. Do my bullets have rifling marks on them,, hmmm. I check ,,,,yep. I must have a short chamber. Now all of this is going on for about 6-9 months. Oook,, how do I fix this ?? Pull your barrel and ream it with a finishing reamer. Brownells,,, reamer ,,,gunsmith, pull barrel,, ream ,, back on . Ammo goes right in the rifle Since I had a reamer,, I might as well do all my cylinders ,,, 6 ea. Just a little fuzz . , Still separate ammo. Talked to another guy, how're you loading it ?. Powder up to here ,,, bullet ,,, compress/crimp. He says I could be compressing to much and blowing the shoulder out just enough. Says to either run the finished ammo back through the resizer/deprimer die or buy another one , take the pin out and run it back through to resize it . I load on a Dillon 650, so I had another hole . Put it in ,, adjusted it ,, all is right in the 38-40 world. Like I said ,,, this is over a 6-9 month period. Was that worth 2 beers ??
Be safe,
Ison