Spacecoast,
If you are seating out further than flush, you'll be able to use more powder. Most cast WC's have a crimp groove up near the end and so they don't seat quite flush like a commercial WC, the Penn bullet included. I just used flush as a worst-case scenario.
I've always taper crimped wadcutters in order to save the wear and tear on the case mouths that a roll crimp introduces. But as long as recoil doesn't cause the bullets to back out enough to jam cylinder rotation, you should be good to go.
Nick,
If you've read the last
Penn Bulletin on the hold-ups and read between the lines, you'll find examples of 6 months delay is possible on specialty items, but Bob Palermo is claiming 6-8 weeks is more normal. Again reading between the lines, Palermo also indicates he let the orders get jumbled up and had to hire part time people to reorganize them and get them back in chronological order and appropriately located in the production schedule. He says:
When your order is grouped and charged those orders are active and will ship anywhere from one day to a maximum of six to eight weeks. If your order is charged and you have not received a ship confirmation then please call or e-mail me to check its status.
If an order hasn’t been charged and it has been here for eight to twelve weeks then you can e-mail or phone for a projected ship date.
So there seems to be some confusion there. If I'm reading it right, he tries not to charge more than 6 to 8 weeks ahead as that's the maximum time an order should be active, but they've obviously messed this up in a number of instances. The bottom line is to email him with your order specifics as your order should be active, but may have been displaced by others inadvertently. I don't know why he says to call, as he also says he's not responding to phone messages for lack of time to do it. He claims he gets to all e-mail—eventually. I think, given those statements, you might even want to send him a note by snail mail just to get more certain attention than an email or phone message.
I was astonished to read that he tripled their capacity and still can't keep up.
