thebrassnuckles wrote:Alriiiight!!!
I'll have to load up some of them before this weekend.
just a quick ?
when switching between load you have to adjust your dies, do you all just do one load til you feel you have enough, then re-set up your dies to the other load or what?
It seems to me that one would achieve best consistency(and thus, better accuracy) by leaving the dies set up for one load and loading up a grip of them. but maybe I'm splitting hairs here as I'll only be running iro sights and possibly in the future a red dot, but i'm ot even sure if i'll put that on there. (for load development I'll be using a scope)
Do you mean the taper crimp die?
If the bullet has a
cannelure, I set my seating depth to bury the
cannelure almost all the way into the case mouth so the taper crimp can press the case into the
cannelure. IMHO, it gives more retention than the taper crimp applied to a part of the bullet that is just flat, hard and shiny. As for setting the taper crimp amount. I determined through experimentation that a .475 taper crimp catches plenty of chamber lip
in my rifle and as such I set my taper crimp to yield .475. Again IMHO, consistent retention is key to consistent results. By consistent, I mean evenly applied all the way around the bullet. The more, the merrier as long as it does not upset the bullets surface too much, especially near the heel. That's why I shy away from a deep side crimp that distorts the flat shiny area of a bullet. I have had lackluster accuracy results with just about every side crimp I have tried to implement. Great retention. Higher velocity. Low SD's. Ho-Hum (3-4 MOA) accuracy.
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