38 spc Crimp

[MrCountyCop]

Would appreciate any comments on the crimp. This is my first attempt with 38's.

125g Remington SJHP 1.430 OAL and the cases are Top Brass once fired. Fits great in the cylinder and in a Wilson pistol gage. Using Federal Gold SPP. No powder info yet, but will use either W231 or Bullseye. Shooting them through a S&W 642.

 

[rcmodel]

Looks fine to me.

I might seat just a frog-hair deeper to insure the inside edge of the crimp is in front of the rear edge of the cannulure though.

Unless you trim all your cases to exact length, a short one might crimp into the bullet instead of the cannulure.

rc

 

[MrCountyCop]

Thanks RC. Picture is a little deceiving. They are seated almost in the middle of the groove.
I use a single stage so not worried about short cases as I check them all between each step.

Ryan

 

[Walkalong]

That is a poor canellure, which is quite common these days, so a great crimp is hard to do. May be the pic, but it looks a hair bulged. A better canellure would let the case mouth crimp further in, eliminating the slight bulge. One has to readjust crimp dies for the difference in a shallow canellure vs a deep one.

 

[MrCountyCop]

Thought you said poor crimp at first then saw cannelure. But yes it kind of looks like there is a bulge but i can barely tell looking at it so I was surprised you could see it in those blurry pics.

They were cheap/on-sale plinking bullets so I'm not too worried about how they look as long as they shoot straight.