slip-fit bullets

[Gunlaker]

I always try to get a slip fit load working before I add neck tension. I like to leave the brass alone if I can because it's simpler, but some of my rifles/bullets prefer some tension. I've been loading them with a little compression and with the bullet just touching the rifling.

My new .40-65 sure likes it that way. It's chambered about perfectly for slip fit IMHO. The only trouble I have with slip fit, is that if you don't anneal reasonably often, sometimes a fired case will no longer accept a bullet. Dan Theodore wrote about that some time ago. After 4 or so firings on my Rem brass (and no annealing), maybe 4 or 5 out of 50 cases will no longer take a slip fit bullet. My sloppier chambered C. Sharps highwall only rarely does that.

Chris.