Greetings:
I worked up a bunch of .32-20 brass for the Nagant and left them long. Seated bullets deep and crimped in front of the bullet ogive to get workable ammo but it’s not really what I’m after as the bullets aren’t crimped enough to keep from falling back in the case.
I’m using .32-20 to Nagant Lee Dies.
This morning I tried to trim some cases back and be able to crimp in the front grease groves of the 78 grain LRN boolits I’m using. And get a nice COAL for my cylinder and decent crimping to eliminate collapsing bullets in the case and uniform resistance/powder burn.
With my set up the now short brass won’t reach the crimping portion of my die.
I tried running it through the sizer (decap rod removed obviously) hoping the die might squish the brass acceptable to hold the boolit. No dice.
I would be pretty happy with a LEE FCD that I could reach the crimping collet on. Would the .32-20 FCD work? Or will I have the same issue in getting the case deep enough in the die?
Should I take my current die to my machinist buddy and shorten the base?
I tried taking some meat off the shell holder to allow additional travel up into the crimp die but that little sucker is HARD. May need machinist for that too.
Thoughts?