Lee carbide factory crimp die seating bullets deeper? - Page 2

reynolds357 · April 23, 2013, 10:31 PM

All the pistol dies I have ever used can be adjusted to crimp, but I have by no means used them all.

mattL46 · April 23, 2013, 10:38 PM

I'm almost ceartian I'm wrong. Just don't remember seeing anything in the instructions about crimping with the seater. Unless that is supposed to be a known fact and I never got the memo! Ha. A lot have mentioned that. If all else fails I'll take the die apart and look for the crimp shoulder. Thanks Reynolds!

rfdillon · April 24, 2013, 07:41 AM

Mattl46:
I don't own the 4 die set, just the 3 die set. Please give Lee a call to ascertain if your seater will crimp. I use the FCDs to apply a taper crimp, but use the seater dies to produce nice roll crimps.

mattL46 · April 24, 2013, 12:03 PM

@rfdillon I'll do that. It would be good to know

wncchester · April 24, 2013, 07:09 PM

Striving to crimp on either the front or rear of a crimping groove will squeeze the bullet forward or backward. Seat to crimp in the middle of the groove and all will be well.

All the crimping a .38 S. usually needs is enough to remove the flare anyway.

April 23, 2013, 10:31 PM	#26
reynolds357 Senior Member Join Date: December 10, 2012 Posts: 6,165	All the pistol dies I have ever used can be adjusted to crimp, but I have by no means used them all.

April 23, 2013, 10:38 PM	#27
mattL46 Senior Member Join Date: February 9, 2013 Posts: 656	I'm almost ceartian I'm wrong. Just don't remember seeing anything in the instructions about crimping with the seater. Unless that is supposed to be a known fact and I never got the memo! Ha. A lot have mentioned that. If all else fails I'll take the die apart and look for the crimp shoulder. Thanks Reynolds!

April 24, 2013, 07:41 AM	#28
rfdillon Member Join Date: April 8, 2007 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 60	Mattl46: I don't own the 4 die set, just the 3 die set. Please give Lee a call to ascertain if your seater will crimp. I use the FCDs to apply a taper crimp, but use the seater dies to produce nice roll crimps.

April 24, 2013, 12:03 PM	#29
mattL46 Senior Member Join Date: February 9, 2013 Posts: 656	@rfdillon I'll do that. It would be good to know

April 24, 2013, 07:09 PM	#30
wncchester Senior Member Join Date: December 1, 2002 Posts: 2,832	Striving to crimp on either the front or rear of a crimping groove will squeeze the bullet forward or backward. Seat to crimp in the middle of the groove and all will be well. All the crimping a .38 S. usually needs is enough to remove the flare anyway.