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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #15 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 1:08am	Print Post
	Tried the .27 grade 3 Ramset in my 44 today with a bullet pulled from a .25 Stevens Short. Bullet was pretty mangled but went bang and hit my trash burn barrel from about 20 yards. The short rounds are a little tricky to handle but worked with no problems that I can see. The problem now is where do I find 67 grain .251 lead bullets?? Carolina Cast Bullets has 50 grain .258 RNFL soft lead bullets for .25 Auto for $8 100. They are oversize but I need to slug my barrel and see where I am at. You would think someone would make .251-.252 cast bullets for the .25 auto. Found some .257 65 grain gas check bullets for .25-20 but they are also oversize and don't need gas check.
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16111 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #16 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:13am	Print Post
	slumlord44 wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 1:08am: Tried the .27 grade 3 Ramset in my 44 today with a bullet pulled from a .25 Stevens Short. Bullet was pretty mangled but went bang and hit my trash burn barrel from about 20 yards. The short rounds are a little tricky to handle but worked with no problems that I can see. The problem now is where do I find 67 grain .251 lead bullets?? Carolina Cast Bullets has 50 grain .258 RNFL soft lead bullets for .25 Auto for $8 100. They are oversize but I need to slug my barrel and see where I am at. You would think someone would make .251-.252 cast bullets for the .25 auto. Found some .257 65 grain gas check bullets for .25-20 but they are also oversize and don't need gas check. Lyman lists a .251" die for their press, so you could buy the larger bullets and run them through a correct die to get where you need them.

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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #17 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 7:57pm	Print Post
	Can you resize them from .257 or .258 down to .251? I am not familiar with the limits of a resizing die.


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Chev. William Full Member Offline Posts: 181 Joined: Sep 14^th, 2013	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #18 - Apr 2^nd, 2014 at 11:13pm	Print Post
	I have not found the upper limit for using a resizing die yet. I have resized .22 hornet Brass to .25 Stevens in one step. I have resized .32 S&W Long to .32 Long Colt in two steps. This included squeezing down the base all the way to the top of the Rim. on the .32 resize, I used a Lee 'Push Through' resize die for the first stepdown after cutting most of the entry forcing cone off the die. This took the case from .337" to .327" in the first step, then from .327" to .316 in the second step. The other resizing took the case from .292" to .276" in one step. I have resized .258" bullets to .251" also (Commercial Lead ones to test). Best Regards, Chev. William
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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #19 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 12:28am	Print Post
	Thanks, that's what I needed to know.


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: Stevens 44 .25 RF Reply #20 - Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 9:34pm	Print Post
	It helps to have the lube grooves of your bullets already filled with your favorite bullet lube before resizing bullets down more than a couple thousandths. Learned that lesson when resizing shallow groove 0.228" bullets down to 0.225"

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