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I have 30 pieces of once fired Barnes factory ammo brass that I want to reload. 30-06 Springfield. This brass has the remains of a factory crimp that I’m not happy with. Not happy because I believe the old crimp will cause inconsistent neck tension, and poor consistency at the range, even after...

Hey folks - bit of an oddball question here. I'm still fairly new to this, when when I started loading .30-30 a year or so ago .223/5.56 was the only other rifle round I was loading. I was well aware that it was not necessary to crimp 2.23/5.56 rounds. Based on that limited experience, and a...

Hey everybody I’m new to reloading and have a question about crimping. I shoot a lot of .223 rem out of an AR15 as well as .308 win out of an AR10. Do I need to be crimping the rounds for either of these guns? As of now, I do a mild-moderate crimp using the lee factory crimp die. I also shoot...

I have reloaded pistol for 5 years but I am new to rifle reloading and have a question. I have just over 5,500 223/556 cases from range pick up that are clean, de-primed and ready to go. None of them look like these. I picked these up at my local range. About 75 of them. The cases are labeled LC...

I have been reloading since 1977. I began reloading .223 Remington in 1979. I have used the same RCBS Reloader Special press since 1979. I have used the same RCBS dies (standard, not small-base) since 1979. They were last adjusted in 2016 to allow interchangeability between a Savage Axis...

Cartridge is .500 S&W. I'm also not getting consistent seat depths when crimp+seating these bullets, I think its because the seating plug is squishing the lead down as it seats the bullet. Should I be seating, then crimping?

Page 38 and 39 (believe it’s page 57 before current updates) discusses crimping rifle rounds. Chapter 2 with subject of crimping rifle rounds. Basically: 1. If you don’t firmly crimp then you must load close to lands or you won’t get sufficient start pressure. 2. Factories can’t custom load...

The last time I loaded anything other than a handful of 9mm cartridges for immediate use was November 2016. Since then, I retired, moved to another state, rebuilt the loading bench I had as a teenager, unpacked everything and got set up again. I figured I got a little rusty, so I resumed...

Hi, I own a 38 LC from 1895 (.375) and I would like to try heeled bullets with it. I have the dies for the .359 hollow base reloading. I've seen on Track of the Wolves website pages suggesting a Remington 35 Factory Crimp die will work to crimp 38 LC heeled bullets : Reloading the .38 Long...

Hello all, I'm new here, and new to reloading so advice would be most appreciated. I recently started reloading for my A.R. 15 and after some research, and some suggestions people are saying do not crimp for best accuracy but rely on the proper neck tension contacting the bullet. High power and...