FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!, I THINK!Well, I do think I have finally found the cause of the situation.
Probably wouldn't have taken as long if I had been as long with reloading a centerfire auto as I have been with reloading other things.
Anyway, I had again ran all the loaded cases through the Lee die which is said to take things back to factory loaded ammo specs, and no luck. Didn't help at all.
Well, I have been thinking about again taking the P345 apart and this time checking the chamber just to make sure there was nothing bad happening there which might have slipped by me.
There was a minor amount of lead build up in the chamber, but nothing which kept the loaded rounds from chambering in what appeared to be a normal manner.
HOWEVER!!!!!!!!! while dropping reloaded ammo with Gold Dot bullets - which by the way feed/shoot without any issues - into the chamber along with some of the problem cast bullet rounds, I saw that the cast rounds didn't seem to chamber as deeply as the Gold Dots.
Hmmmmmmmmm?
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Upon closely looking at the two rounds side by side, along with repeatedly dropping them into the chamber, I noted a small ridge of lead just at the case mouth of the cast loads.
A bit of "adjustment" with a sharp knife and the cast bullet loads dropped to a depth equal to the Gold Dot rounds.
Like I already indicated, if my experience with a centerfire auto reloading was as "in depth" as my been there done that experience in other areas, this probably would not have slipped by me. Probably won't again, I hope!
Anyway, problem finally solved!
Keep em coming!
CDOC
