So far I have been reloading 45-70 and .44 with cast bullets, and that has gone peachy. Now that I got a rifle in .325 WSM I'm back to not knowing what the heck I'm doing.
Crimping... RCBS dies do very little expansion of the neck so as it is the FMJ bullets go in quite tight. The first problem I'm having is that I can't tell between not crimped, and crumpled case. Unlike cast bullets with a nice define cannelure the 150gr Speer projectiles I'm using do not have a that grove, I can't tell when they are crimped, and when I try I end up crushing the case. Looking at the Lyman manual 48 it says that bullets without a crimp groove cannot be crimped...
I already ordered a factory crimp die but in the mean time could somebody answer the following?
1. Why on earth most of these die sets are only 2 dies! Would it have killed them to include a separate crimp die?
2. Do I need to crimp these? the fit is pretty tight but they will be coming out of a Browning BLR lever rifle.