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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2982616" data-attributes="member: 15054">The reason some failed is because some of those cast bullets had a little lip of lead at the bottom of the bullet that I did not bother to remove before coating them.I used that as an experimental batch to see what would happen.If I had cleaned off the bottom flash before coating you would not have that issue.So that is my fault that the bullets failed.They sure look pretty.I used 158gr data on my 172 gr bullets in 357 mag.No issues up to 13.5gr of 2400 and I even used magnum primers.Now this is Alox coated gas checked.So I would just stay 1-2 gr under max load data using 158 data for now, then work up.There is just not a lot of bearing surface on those Lee bullets compared to others.Of course I used 357 mag data in 38 cases also  shot through my 357 pistol.I figured Elmer did it so I would try and see if there was any accuracy there.Accuracy was a bit less than using 357 cases.But it did work fine.. IN MY Gun.6" german HW357 barrel slugs at .3565" chamber throats measure .357"</blockquote>