Again, I went to Dillon, they understood I was not going to seat and crimp on their press in the third and forth position and I was not going to start over by purchasing their dies, at the time I thought I had all the dies I would ever need, takes time but seating and crimping can be accomplished is separation operations with one die or two seater dies, works with a two ram Herter's or a turret press.
Dillon's logic as in a conflict is correct when seating and crimping at the same time, must be 15+ gigs of space used to describe failure to chamber after seating, the standard answer from the choir is ‘over crimping’ ?
The correct answer is as Dillon’s research found, the case neck locks onto the bullet as the bullet is seated, again and again, the seater die does not offer case body support meaning as the bullet moves down and the case mouth locks into the bullet the case has no choice but to bulge, squat, expand or collapse, on a bottle neck case the shoulder starts to bulge and or collapse, in any event the case shortens and as a results the diameter of the case increases below the crimp and the bullet hold, tension? is reduced.
And I said I had two 45 ACP that liked new ammo (only), in a small circle or reloader friends (outside of the Internet) that are accomplished reloaders offered to load ammo for the 1911, there were no less than 6 1911s at the range, all but one shot their reloads flawlessly, and there had to be something wrong with my techniques and methods, I took their reloads home, sized them with a full length sizer, returned and faked my 1911 into thinking it was getting the good/new stuff. They did not recommending ‘fixing’ the problem, because accuracy was not one of the problems, and yes, I have extra barrels, home made gages, Wilson case gages and micrometers, I took a picture of my gages and micrometers, the picture weighed 400 lbs., when loading for that one 1911 the ammo must must measure the same as new, store bought, over the counter ammo.
And Dillon was polite, they qualified their answer with the amount of research they did over the past half century +, they did not find fault with other manufactures, they said in testing other manufactures reloading equipment they found things they liked, some things they thought they could improve on and things that could not be improved upon, and they assured me they were shooters, they assured me if I did something 100 times they have done it 1,000s of times, and they claimed they used the full length sizer die as a crimp die, and it worked, maybe not for the same reason but they do not go to the range to struggle with jams, as he said, “We are shooters”.
I did not make the effort to go to Dillon to tell they how wonderful I was and I gave them no reason to take me serious, when it comes to taking someone on this forum serious over Dillons advise, I will go with Dillon ever time.
F. Guffey