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.30-30 crimping

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29 November 2001, 10:38
John Frazer
.30-30 crimping
Realized I will need to crimp my .30-30 loads for the tubular magazine -- do you prefer using the seating die, or the Lee Factory Crimp die?

How hard do you crimp it?

29 November 2001, 12:58
Atkinson
either one will do...Crimp lightly or you will bulge the shoulder and have feeding problems...The Lee crimper is hailed my many but I have not tried it.

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29 November 2001, 13:02
ricciardelli
A moderate roll crimp with the standard die is just fine.
29 November 2001, 14:17
grandpao
quote:
Originally posted by John Frazer:
Realized I will need to crimp my .30-30 loads for the tubular magazine -- do you prefer using the seating die, or the Lee Factory Crimp die?

How hard do you crimp it?

I use the Lee Factory Crimp Die and prefer it.as far as how hard i will leave that up to you. I just give it enogh to hold the bullet its a trial and error thing that you can learn.


03 December 2001, 18:06
<Hutt>
The Lee factory crimp. Even made a beleiver out of a skepic such as myself.
04 December 2001, 16:10
Major Caliber
I find the crimper in the seating die works fine, just trim all your cases to the same length. I use 35gr of H335 and a 150gr Speer, my M94 Win will put 5 shots in an 1" at 100yds with the open sights.
04 December 2001, 17:04
<Paul Dustin>
I use the Lee factory crimp on all my reloads