Brudford01 wrote on Jul 9^th, 2015 at 9:34pm:

Apparently, the throating was fine for the first batch of bullets.

If you are certain that the mold isn't right then I'd call Gail about it.  I had a Hoch mold with a nose that was way oversized (a couple of years ago ) and after talking to her she said they had a few that were out of spec.  She sent me a replacement right away.  Interestingly that one was a bit too small for my CPA with a Badger barrel, but absolutely perfect for my Ruger with an RKS barrel

I suspect that the small differences in groove/bore specs across the various barrel makes that CPA sells makes it a bit more difficult to supply a well fitting mold.  My new RKS .38 barrel is so tight ( bore diameter ) that none of my existing molds is even close.  With the exception of a bore diameter PP mold that I bought a while back.

Chris.

There is another possible cause for your problem.  On some barrels, a goodly amount of carbon fouling will build up in the throat area.  Normal cleaning with patch and solvent will not remove this fouling.  You must use a bronze brush.

I speak from experience.  I have a older, long-leade barrel in .32-40.  After approximately 25-30 shots, the bullets become increasingly more difficult to seat.  As more seating force is required, accuracy drops of dramatically.

The only way to deal with this problem (for this particular rifle) is to make several passes with a bronze brush following two 10-shot targets.  I follow-up with one patch moistened with Ballistol followed by a dry patch.  After two fouling shots, the barrel is again good to go. 

JackHughs

In the most recent post frnkeore nailed it. A bullet that fits and seats easily will work. I own a number of 32-40s that have factory chambers and throats. I use bullets from a Pope 32 caliber mold, 193 Grs. It is very much tapered .316 up to the last band and that casts .326/.327 slightly out of round. My breech seating procedure is to drop the bullet in the chamber and slide the loaded case in behind. In some rifles there is slight resistance to the last 1/16 to 1/8" but I can push it all the way with my thumb. Now this I think does not constitute real breech seating but the effect is the same. I do not make any claim that this would be a really good procedure for bench rest shooting. But I can say these rifles all shoot far better than I can hold and when I was younger and stronger I shot some very respectfull scores and my brass lasts forever. I have had a lot of opportunities to cast from Pope Molds 32-40 and they all had two consistant characteristics. A) They were all 1.00" long very tight. B) weights ran right around 193/195 Grs.
diameters ran from .315/.316 at the front band and .323/.326
at the base band. So far I have not found a 32-40 with a factory chamber that they will not breech seat in easily cast 26/1 to 30/1 lead/tin alloy. Purchasing bullets from a production caster for Schuetzen often leads to very hard alloys. This because they cast easily and do not beat themselves up in shipping. I have not ever had any success with hard alloys in Schuetzen loads. First time I tried to Muzzle load my Pope 38-55 with a hard alloy I nearly broke my hand.
The alloy was 50/50 linotype and pure lead. I had been using that for years in a 30 cal bolt gun, shot well. But not the alloy for soft loads Muzzle loaded. Well all for now. HTH regards, FITZ.