First time trying pistol ammo on the Dillon 550 and everything was going well as far as the setup until the crimp station came into play.
I'm using:
Dillon 550
Dillon 45ACP dies
Missouri 200gr Lead SWC
Win231
From the reading I've done it seems there is bit more leeway on certain things with pistol rounds (except the powder charge) and I've already have to go over the recommended OAL of 1.190 as the mount of the case went over the 'ogive' and extended it to 1.228 which was the minimum OAL that would cycle/eject regularly as the 1.250 suggested 'standard' I saw on a few forums would not.
So I re-sized the brass setting up the die with a headspace gauge and all is GTG. On the second station the powder die flares/bells the case and it was said to have it flare to around .474 so that you can take .002 off with the crimp as people tend to want somewhere between .469-.472 after the crimp.
So after flaring it to .474, I put it in the bullet seating die and it goes down to .460. This is where I am confused. How do I even get to the crimp if the seating die does this?
The other issue is that it looks like I need to crimp down to .4575 anyways. I took a sized/seated case and kept slowly working the crimp die down until I could get a round to drop freely in/out of the 45ACP barrel/chamber I will be shooting this through. This just adds to the confusion; so does the .469-.472 crimp not even matter as it seems it wouldn't chamber anyways? Am I missing somewhere here? Or am I doing what needs to be done for it to work in my handgun?
I'm using:
Dillon 550
Dillon 45ACP dies
Missouri 200gr Lead SWC
Win231
From the reading I've done it seems there is bit more leeway on certain things with pistol rounds (except the powder charge) and I've already have to go over the recommended OAL of 1.190 as the mount of the case went over the 'ogive' and extended it to 1.228 which was the minimum OAL that would cycle/eject regularly as the 1.250 suggested 'standard' I saw on a few forums would not.
So I re-sized the brass setting up the die with a headspace gauge and all is GTG. On the second station the powder die flares/bells the case and it was said to have it flare to around .474 so that you can take .002 off with the crimp as people tend to want somewhere between .469-.472 after the crimp.
So after flaring it to .474, I put it in the bullet seating die and it goes down to .460. This is where I am confused. How do I even get to the crimp if the seating die does this?
The other issue is that it looks like I need to crimp down to .4575 anyways. I took a sized/seated case and kept slowly working the crimp die down until I could get a round to drop freely in/out of the 45ACP barrel/chamber I will be shooting this through. This just adds to the confusion; so does the .469-.472 crimp not even matter as it seems it wouldn't chamber anyways? Am I missing somewhere here? Or am I doing what needs to be done for it to work in my handgun?