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Neck Crimping Advice
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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 1062458" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>I agree with others...I'd avoid neck crimping. What you can do to put your mind at ease is measure some of your rounds prior to loading into your rifle. Make sure and measure to ogive and not tip. Mark these rounds with a sharpie so you know which ones are which. Then go fire your rifle. Do not chamber the marked bullets. Keep loading your chamber with a new round that isn't measured. Fire like 4 shots. Then remeasure the rounds you measured before and compare. If they did not change in length then you are fine. Again...do not measure the tip because yes the tip could jam against the front of the mag and deform but the bullet should stay seated properly and this slight deformation shouldn't impact accuracy much at all as long as your ogive measurement is fine. If the bullets are indeed moving in your cases then your neck tension is off which you should fix by replacing your die. I'd never crimp a long range rifle...too much risk in deformity the bullets</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 1062458, member: 52437"] I agree with others...I'd avoid neck crimping. What you can do to put your mind at ease is measure some of your rounds prior to loading into your rifle. Make sure and measure to ogive and not tip. Mark these rounds with a sharpie so you know which ones are which. Then go fire your rifle. Do not chamber the marked bullets. Keep loading your chamber with a new round that isn't measured. Fire like 4 shots. Then remeasure the rounds you measured before and compare. If they did not change in length then you are fine. Again...do not measure the tip because yes the tip could jam against the front of the mag and deform but the bullet should stay seated properly and this slight deformation shouldn't impact accuracy much at all as long as your ogive measurement is fine. If the bullets are indeed moving in your cases then your neck tension is off which you should fix by replacing your die. I'd never crimp a long range rifle...too much risk in deformity the bullets [/QUOTE]
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