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Thread: Ideas for an unconventional crimping system

  1. 08-10-2024, 11:10 PM #16
    Makros
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter View Post
    I was going to say.

    I've got a full LEE 38 super die set. Which you may have been able to use the crimp die ?
    That's a taper crimp die. It'd crush the bullet before it got close to the case. Heeled bullets can't be used in taper crimps.
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    A (cringy?) crimp from the history books.

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    They were crimped like that into an similar indent in the bullet. Not cringy. .303's rule.
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