survivalshop Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darb Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 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. DSCN1970.JPG DSCN1971.JPG 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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