Light crimp at the very end, just to be sure nothing bad happens!
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Do you crimp your .223 cases?
- Thread starter Bob_Billy107
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I am a crimper on all rounds
I'm assuming we're still talking autoloaders? Sometimes I do, others I don't.
Bolt or single shot, almost never. Properly sized bottleneck rifles cartridges are too easily tuned to the individual chamber they're shot from to be introducing a crimp into the mix.
If loading a generic load for multiple firearms in the same caliber, then a good crimp may even help accuracy by somewhat uniforming start pressures.
I think most accuracy oriented shooters,(myself) tend to load for one rifle at a time and don't much cotton to crimps of any kind on their precision work.
Bolt or single shot, almost never. Properly sized bottleneck rifles cartridges are too easily tuned to the individual chamber they're shot from to be introducing a crimp into the mix.
If loading a generic load for multiple firearms in the same caliber, then a good crimp may even help accuracy by somewhat uniforming start pressures.
I think most accuracy oriented shooters,(myself) tend to load for one rifle at a time and don't much cotton to crimps of any kind on their precision work.
