Dunno what that cowboy used, figured you were thinking factory. I gots to look at it from the handloader's perspective.
Not sure I want to travel the Old West path on this, mostly because I have zero experience with that style of crimp die and haven't a clue if they are capable of being delicate and that's all I think necessary. Pondering a slight of hand trick wherein the heel has a minor taper from base to seat index, maybe .002" of taper with the base just a bit over sized or something of that sort. Minor flare on the case mouth to enable seating then a very minor bump back to .224" OD on the case. Bullet will be .224" OD on the belt/drive band. Short version: Brass wall .008" x 2 = .016. Heel might be .209" at the base and .207" at the index.
I ponder such things in the darkness of ignorance.
Any idea how I extracted that bullet without deforming it?
