die question

[mini14.223]

i have a reddings 30/30 die that is used and it has no papers that came with it. i have never crimped so i know anything about it. but i was wondering if the bullet seating die also does the roll crimp. is this a stupid question if so sorry.

[mkl]

Odds are very good that your seating die has a crimp shoulder in it.

I (and many of us) seat and crimp as two separate processes.

Set your seating die like this:

1. Screw the seating stem all the way back.
2. Screw your die into the press three or four turns.
3 Place a sized case in the shell holder and run the ram all the way up.
4. Continue screwing the seating die down until you feel it run into resistance from the case. This is the crimp shoulder contacting the case mouth.
5. Back off the die one turn. Set the lock ring.
6. Lower the ram, set a bullet in the case mouth and raise the ram.
7 Screw the seating stem down until you feel it contact the top of the bullet.
8. Lower the ram an inch or so, and then screw in your seating stem three or four more turns.
9. Raise the ram and seat the bullet.
10. Check the seat depth, and adjust the seating stem until you get the depth you want, then seat all your bullets.
11. After you are happy with the seat depth, your are now ready to crimp.
12. Screw the seating stem all the way out.
13. Loosen the lock ring.
14. With a cartridge with properly seated bullet in the shell holder, run the cartridge all the way into the die.
15. Screw the die down until you feel resistance. This is the crimp shoulder contacting the case mouth as mentioned above.
16. Lower the ram an inch or so and screw in the die 1/2 turn.
17. Raise the ram all the way up. You have now crimped the bullet.
18 Adjust the amount of crimp by screwing the die in/out a quarter turn at a time. The further in, the heavier the crimp.
19. After you get the crimp you want, set the lock ring and crimp the rest of your cartridges.

Hope this helps.