Need help, Bullets purchased for antique gun and poor service

OK I wont share the name yet but here is the story. I ordered from a specialist 5 box's of colt.41 for my 110 year old antique colt thunderer. I am not a gun expert, far from any expert knowledge. I took the gun out to his shop last year, and he got mad at me for taking the gun out in his shop saying he doesnt need the gun...ok I actually felt embarrassed thinking i was wrong in bringing the gun out..

Anyways a month past and he called and said order is ready...paid the $575 and had my brother pick up becauses its an 1.5 hour drive from my house. I get the bullets and lock them in the safe. SO this sept I take them with the gun to the cabin, drive to a spot to shoot, take the bullets out and insert them in the chamber and they are 1mm too long...WTF. Call the guy, rude to me saying bring them out. I drive out yesterday and bring the gun and he says ya well each guns different, that he made standard .41's and says i need to buy new ones??? WTF, so i calmly say well this is your mistake and i watch this guy get angered from me saying its his problem, i say, you even told me that every guns off so why didnt you make sure they fit last year before making 250 rounds,,,nothing from him, then he says well it was well over a year ago so its too long (Have invoice and receipt) so i explain they were in the locker for all this time, then i say ok if it was one day after i discovered his mistake what would he have done, no answer other than this is not his problem.

Normally i would loose it and go over the counter on someone who is this rude and angry, but i keep calm, and ask him to see if its fixable. Then i thank him for looking into and ask, when can i expect this fixed, and he said i doubt ill fix and ill call you when i call you..... again rudest mother f'r gun guy ever but I am hoping he takes care of his mistake.

SO is this my fault? Should he be accountable?? Any feedback on what to do?

His mistake for sure..
Give him another call and if not plaster him with exposure.
I would think another guy could trim and reuse the components.

I would say definitely his fault. You had the gun with you. If he knew, like he said, each gun is different then he should have measured your gun before he even started. He should be on the hook for the full cost and should
deliver them to you and make sure they work.

Very odd that he didnt want the gun to check the first round he made or take chamber measurements to ensure the cartridges would fit. A gun that old probably wouldnt have the exact spec's as newer ones. Sounds like a lazy ass to me who just made them quickly and hoped they would fire off. Yikes, not the guy I would want reloading ammo for me

Ya he is a very odd duck, super rude and super angry. Hopefully he just gets this corrected but i have a bad feeling hes going to tell me im out of $575.

Yes my modern 338 ammo is built to my guns specs.

too bad they don't fire at all or you could return the lead part 1 at a time...heheheh...JK

If this is just an issue with bullet seating and the rounds are not crimped. It should just be a matter of re-seating the bullet to the proper depth. I would think

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Originally Posted by boblly1

If this is just an issue with bullet seating and the rounds are not crimped. It should just be a matter of re-seating the bullet to the proper depth. I would think

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Sorry I am not good at describing, if i put the bullets in the cylinder, they stick out about a milimiter so the cylinder will not rotate to the next bullet?

Does that make sense?

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Originally Posted by BigfishCanada

Sorry I am not good at describing, if i put the bullets in the cylinder, they stick out about a milimiter so the cylinder will not rotate to the next bullet?

Does that make sense?

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Yes. When you mount the actual projectile in the brass cartridge, it can be pressed down slightly more or less depending on your firearm.

PS. If you don't have the proper equipment, don't try this yourself.