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[Nuclearcricket]

Yes thats true. The loads I put together for the smith have the first band and grease grove exposed. I think this set up should chamber without any problems and I may be able to set it out a little more but only time will tell. I think that this is probably about the max as far as gg bullets go. However If I do end up needing to set them out a little farther, I do have a sizing die that I can easily size the first band down just under bore size and that will let me set things out to where I have 2 bands exposed and maybe all of the second grease grove. I should know in a few weeks.
One thing that I hadn't really given much thought to was loading blocks. I have 2 nice wooden ones and if the humidity changes a little, my brass will not fit. So its time to make some new blocks. I did find a source for a 11/16 Forstner bit, I would have prefered 21/32 but that rascal just is not to be found. So sometime next week my somewhat cluttered shop gets turned into a a real mess with drilling all those holes. However making this discovery now is kind of a blessing in disguise. I was going to have a guy make me an 80 or 100 rnd wooden cartridge box and if he had used a 5/8 bit I would have been screwed. So I guess it is all good.
Since I have about 4 cans of FF Elephant this will be a good opprotunity to burn some of that up. And it should shoot ok, its just a little on the slow side and dirty. But I think I will order a bag of Arsenal patches and wipe between shots and see how that works out. Sure can't hurt anything and maybe it will help.
Sam