I am moving along on my Taylor Uberti High Wall .38-55 project and have run myself to tight dimensions and clearances to allow for the deep grooves.
Anyways I have a 250 grain bullet sized to .383 and I can hand seat my bullet in my unsized brass with a good tight slip fit. I need very firm thumb pressure to do so. The loaded round leaves me 0.001 to 0.0015 under the chamber size.
I am using 4198 not black so I am not expecting tons of fouling to spoil my fit.
Is this tight hand press fit ok for my 1885 shooting? My thoughts is the sheutzen game was done with seating while chambering so it cannot be too bad.
Do I want to crimp anyway?
Loads are mild, basically have been using target loads from Pet Loads author ken waters. 21 grains gives 1290 ish FPS and is in his lighter group of pet loads for light duty guns that handle less pressure.
I might load 20 crimped and 20 not crimped and see what looks best.
Your thoughts please and thank you.