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Is this too much crimp?


ysrracer

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on the assumption you are asking...

oh yeah, a bit much crimp.

I am curious how you got there?
coated lead.
Did you tighten the crimp to prevent setback?

ah well. This discussion can go a lot of directions.

you may want to tinker with another expander die...

miranda

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35 minutes ago, GMM50 said:

If you are mistreating our bullets, I'm going to report you!!

 

Hoosier, they use a different profile than I'm used to. I had to load them to 1.085 to get them to plunk.

 

I just kept screwing in the crimp because I couldn't believe I needed to load them that short.

 

I'm going back jacketed bullets. I can load Zero at 1.125 with virtually no crimp.

 

They load and fire fine.

 

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On 8/20/2022 at 10:21 PM, ysrracer said:

I just kept screwing in the crimp because I couldn't believe I needed to load them that short.

But crimping doesn't affect length.  And if the loaded rounds were too fat and they didn't "plunk" as you say, maybe the bullets were the wrong diameter?

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4 hours ago, Postal Bob said:

But crimping doesn't affect length.  And if the loaded rounds were too fat and they didn't "plunk" as you say, maybe the bullets were the wrong diameter?

 

Yes, thanks

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