So far so good, taper crimp works well, loading rounded at 1.75 oal.
Ruger 45 Colt Blackhawk 7.5in bbl, .4525 thraoted cylinder.
A bunch of coyboy loads, and to test cylinder bullet pull.
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So far so good, taper crimp works well, loading rounded at 1.75 oal.
Ruger 45 Colt Blackhawk 7.5in bbl, .4525 thraoted cylinder.
A bunch of coyboy loads, and to test cylinder bullet pull.
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Update.
I took my Lee crimp die apart, and ground down the sleve like DougGuy did.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...=1#post2239315
This is his idea, this measurements worked great on...
Does the crimp need to go in a lube grove, or in between? Where I want to have a roll crimp, is almost always between the crimp grove and top lube grove.
So I'm guessing the taper crimp will either...
Not sure what j-word means. sorry. Is this a type of bullet?
Forget post, I looked it up.. oh boy. ha
Interesting. I bought a lfc in 45 colt, but couldn't get results like your, bullets I want to load long are the 340g montana WFN-GC .452 .
The meplet to Crimp grove is around .385. for me to load...
Is there any tool to put a crimp grove on a hard cast bullet? The cast bullets I have/buy where the crimp groove is, are too high, and I have to seat bullet deeper in case, like 1.60in, I want to...
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