jose wales 1957
04-25-2010, 08:35 PM
heres one for you peeps,
seems like my CH seater/crimp die has a built in secret/surprise... i have a vintage CH loader with matching vintage dies in .32 win spec that would not seat the boolit to the depth i want (shallow) before it crimped. it kept shoving the boolit down even with the seater stem removed. puzzled by this and sleeping on it i found that my cast boolit was too large. after building a sizer die @ at approx .320, it seems that as a second step, that driving a cast and sized to .320 boolit through the die brings ranch dogs .323 mold boolit to .319. I have to wonder, was this a planned process by the CH folks or just a coincidence.... my herters seater/crimp die set in .32 win allows all boolits sized or unsized to fall straight through......hmmmm. i will try them at 319 and if not satisfactory, will try lapping it to .320ish. anyone else experience this? thanks.....:idea:....jw
seems like my CH seater/crimp die has a built in secret/surprise... i have a vintage CH loader with matching vintage dies in .32 win spec that would not seat the boolit to the depth i want (shallow) before it crimped. it kept shoving the boolit down even with the seater stem removed. puzzled by this and sleeping on it i found that my cast boolit was too large. after building a sizer die @ at approx .320, it seems that as a second step, that driving a cast and sized to .320 boolit through the die brings ranch dogs .323 mold boolit to .319. I have to wonder, was this a planned process by the CH folks or just a coincidence.... my herters seater/crimp die set in .32 win allows all boolits sized or unsized to fall straight through......hmmmm. i will try them at 319 and if not satisfactory, will try lapping it to .320ish. anyone else experience this? thanks.....:idea:....jw