Hi All.
I'm a total noob in the reloading area and I have a problem. Here's a pic of the handload I am trying to work up. It's a .308 hunting round using a Hornady SST projectile of 150 Gn weight. I have a pile of once-fired brass from my Steyr Scout and so I have used a prepped but unprimed case to seat a bullet in using the "put it in the gun-close the bolt" method.
The result is what you see here. The crimp cannelure is way above the top of the neck. I gave the seating plug a half turn down to seat the bullet in off the lands too. I have provided a Remington factory round here for comparison and the bullet ogive seems to be almost identical to the Hornady projectile.
As is, this round will fit easily in the magazine and seems to feed fine too. My questions are:
1. I can't crimp the case with the cannelure out this far. Is that a problem?
2. should I seat the bullet back so that I can crimp and just let the bullet leap the 1/8" into the rifling?
