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Will it chamber as is? If so....bang. If not the pull it and resize as mentioned. I also have the hammer type and collet puller as well. 99% of the time I'll use the hammer.
 
Looks like a 30-30? If I had a bunch, I would remove the seating stem and see if I could get it to iron out with the crimp die before disassembling them.
 
It’s is 30-30. Do you think the seating stem pushed the bullet down? That makes sense. I thought the crimping area of the die did it. I had seated the bullet and then turned the seating stem up several turns so I could crimp it. Maybe I didn’t back the seating stem out enough.
 
It definitely looks like it was pushed to far into the case.

As another member asked, did you trim them after sizing? Check the OAL of the cases?
 
I will recommend, buy extra kinetic mallets, because they break.

I have had the handles snap off at the head, I have had the plastic break at the handle junction, I have had the plastic shatter on the impact part of the head. If you have two, and break one, you can immediately keep on disassembling ammunition till a back up arrives.

I have had a lot of reloading sins, and I have spend hours and hours performing penance.

I don't know why these Chinese made plastic kinetic mallets break so easily, but since the "brand names" are all buying them from China, and possibly the same manufacturer, it makes economic sense to buy a no name mallet for less. It will last just as long as a more expensive brand name mallet.
 
Cokeman said:
It’s is 30-30. Do you think the seating stem pushed the bullet down? That makes sense. I thought the crimping area of the die did it. I had seated the bullet and then turned the seating stem up several turns so I could crimp it. Maybe I didn’t back the seating stem out enough.
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back it off as far as possible.

luck,

murf
 
Note, question and reminder to self:
I bought a case trimmer for .30-30 when I was shooting and reloading 175 rounds a year just for black powder cartridge matches.
When was the last time I used my trmmer on .30-30 brass?
I am not reloading as much .30-30 as I used to, but that brass does grow longer if you don't watch it.
 
The die body was set too deep and applied to much crimp. When seating and crimping in the same step, the bullet always moves down as the crimp is being applied, and when the die is set properly, the bullet slips in the crimp right up until the ram stops moving upward. Having the crimp set too heavily causes the bullet to be held so tightly by the case mouth that it can no longer slip and it buckles the case.
 
A short story
Once apon a time I went hunting with a friend across the state. Got there and had left my 30-30 ammo at home. He had a 308. We went to the hardware store in town and I got a box of silverWinchester ammo. Used one to check sight in and one for a crotch horn. Later that summer I took the remainder of them apart intending on reloading with IMR 3031. I resized them and for grins measured them all were at max length, some longer. Had to trim them to my standard depth so as not to need adjusting my seating die.

If you are going to roll crimp in a crimp ring always trim your brass to one standard depth. Or you will be fighting getting that crimp rite on each length forever. If you get a Lee FCD then just trim if the brass are overlength and not worry about individual length. That's the way I do it now.
 
FROGO207 said:
A short story
Once apon a time I went hunting with a friend across the state. Got there and had left my 30-30 ammo at home. He had a 308. We went to the hardware store in town and I got a box of silverWinchester ammo. Used one to check sight in and one for a crotch horn. Later that summer I took the remainder of them apart intending on reloading with IMR 3031. I resized them and for grins measured them all were at max length, some longer. Had to trim them to my standard depth so as not to need adjusting my seating die.

If you are going to roll crimp in a crimp ring always trim your brass to one standard depth. Or you will be fighting getting that crimp rite on each length forever. If you get a Lee FCD then just trim if the brass are overlength and not worry about individual length. That's the way I do it now.
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And that folks is an exciting summer on Mt Desert Island.
 
Cokeman said:
It’s is 30-30. Do you think the seating stem pushed the bullet down? That makes sense. I thought the crimping area of the die did it. I had seated the bullet and then turned the seating stem up several turns so I could crimp it. Maybe I didn’t back the seating stem out enough.
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I've loaded my 30-30 with 170gr bullets, but, crimped seperatly with a Lee collet crimper. Simple and basically fool proof design. Works. thumbnail.jpg
 
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