Walkalong, hand picked ... that's funny! You can see some cleaning residue on one of the cases in my photo ... your brass looks so perfect I felt that I had to make an extra effort.
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I've always crimped in a separate (and final) step for handgun and rifle loads, although off the top of my head, the only rifle caliber I crimp is .45-70.
That bullet in the vjay's original post has some interesting markings on it too. Not sure what that's all about.
rcmodel, would you say that SAAMI - .003" is a standard minimum dimension for the case mouth diameter for most if not all handgun calibers that headspace on the case mouth? Lyman shows the .45 ACP to have a .473" case mouth so would .470" be the minimum acceptable diameter? I've never seen any published tolerances on case mouth dimensions so that's why I ask.
something vague said:Crimping in a different step from seating the bullet is the easiest way to go in my experience.
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I've always crimped in a separate (and final) step for handgun and rifle loads, although off the top of my head, the only rifle caliber I crimp is .45-70.
That bullet in the vjay's original post has some interesting markings on it too. Not sure what that's all about.
rcmodel said:The mouth of the case should measure no less then .370" at most.
SAAMI spec is .373".
rcmodel, would you say that SAAMI - .003" is a standard minimum dimension for the case mouth diameter for most if not all handgun calibers that headspace on the case mouth? Lyman shows the .45 ACP to have a .473" case mouth so would .470" be the minimum acceptable diameter? I've never seen any published tolerances on case mouth dimensions so that's why I ask.