1911 barrel for COL gage

[survivalshop]

  If you have needed a COL gage for one of your 45ACP or other pistol barrels that you can remove, just pull the barrel off the pistol & use it as a COL gage . This is from my reloading for 45 ACP , I use an old 1911 barrel I replaced on an old Remington Rand 1911 . Barrel is still a shooter bbl. , even though its an old one .

  The COL in a 1911 type barrel should be flush with the shroud of the barrel or very close to it as seen in the photo's . One photo shows to long of a COL & the other is usually where I seat them to .

 

You can use pretty much any pistol barrel that you can remove , just use a factory round to see where it seats to (or a known proper COL cartridge )& seat your reloads to it . All bullets are not made to the same specs even though they are the same cal. & gr. weight, so seeing how they seat in a barrel is a good gage . I use a lot of manufacturers bullets that you don't see in the reloading manuals , so you really don't know there COL.

 

 

 

The photo's don't show how big a difference there really is . Hard to get a good angle , but you should get the idea.

Edited January 30, 2014 by survivalshop

[darb]

  If you have needed a COL gage for one of your 45ACP or other pistol barrels that you can remove, just pull the barrel off the pistol & use it as a COL gage . This is from my reloading for 45 ACP , I use an old 1911 barrel I replaced on an old Remington Rand 1911 . Barrel is still a shooter bbl. , even though its an old one .

  The COL in a 1911 type barrel should be flush with the shroud of the barrel or very close to it as seen in the photo's . One photo shows to long of a COL & the other is usually where I seat them to .

 

You can use pretty much any pistol barrel that you can remove , just use a factory round to see where it seats to (or a known proper COL cartridge )& seat your reloads to it . All bullets are not made to the same specs even though they are the same cal. & gr. weight, so seeing how they seat in a barrel is a good gage . I use a lot of manufacturers bullets that you don't see in the reloading manuals , so you really don't know there COL.

 

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The photo's don't show how big a difference there really is . Hard to get a good angle , but you should get the idea.

great idea