Hoot wrote:Kiwi Greg wrote:pitted bore wrote:Greg-
Many thanks for posting the photos of those fine looking and wonderfully performing rifles. Your customer should be a pleased person.
Looking at the last photo of your handloads, it appears you used no special loading techniques, just a firm taper crimp into the canelures. Correct?
--Bob
Yep I have a Hornady die set just used the tapered crimp die.
Stupid question so don't laugh, (this is the first straight walled pistol type case I have loaded for) There is four dies in the set, decapping /sizing die, seating die, crimp die & what is the other one for ??
Paper Weight.
The expander die flares the mouth a little bit to assist in starting bullets. Experience has taught us that the seating die does such a good job that flaring is not necessary. I have heard that it might have value if you're loading cast boolits so as not to shave the heel. I used the flaring die on my first couple of rounds because I thought Hornady knew best. When you think about neck tension, you realize you will get more strength from letting it expand slightly as the bullet seats as opposed to flaring it and the trying to crimp it back down. Now you're shrinking something you just stretched and there's always springback. So, not many members here use the flaring die.
Hoot
Thanks it makes perfect sense now