Winchester's 44-40 High Velocity "Draw Set", 1903

Gunsmithing Ammo | Reloading
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Absolutely,

I have a 44 Magnum die that was cut down to just resize the case neck of the 44-40 to receive .430 bullets. These cases were only to be used in the Marlin 1894CB. This way the case body stayed sized to the chamber and the case neck was only resized enough to receive the oversized .430 bullets. The theory was to extend case life due to overworked resizing steps. However, I discovered that using the RCBS Cowboy dies did basically the same thing. Mainly because non of my chambers are oversized thus are not over worked.

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