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Old May 30, 2013, 04:48 PM   #10
kraigwy
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Get a Lee Carbide factory crimp die to run your bullets through after they are reloaded.

After you size the brass you'll find its smaller (inside diameter) then the bullet. That's why you need to bell the cases.

But after you seat the bullet it swells the case a bit, might not see it but its there. Often you can see a ring where the bottom of the bullet sets.

The Lee Factory Crimp Die has a carbide ring at the base. It sizes the case as it goes down, Crimping may put the ring in the case which would case it not to feed BUT, as you pull the round out of the case, that bottom ring once again sizes the case, making it fit the chamber.

This is critical in such a gun as the Smith Model 52 (auto loader) but it works for revolvers also.
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