I am in the process of making 380 long rifle cases out of 38 spcl cases. I am using cast heeled bullets. How do I crimp them? Dave at Lee told me, that their collet type crimp die would not work, they tried to create a collet type die but were not successful.
Crimping heeled bullets - how/what to use?
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You are some how going to have to create enough case wall tension to hold the bullet. Your crimp will most likely just roll the belling back to match the OD of the bottom of the heel.
As these are orphan rounds, I doubt anyone will come up with the right tooling, but a collet system is a good idea.
As these are orphan rounds, I doubt anyone will come up with the right tooling, but a collet system is a good idea.
Go to Leverguns.com and check out the article on the .475 Achillies, it uses a healed type bullet and they crimp it with a modified Lee collet die. I have heard that in the old days they used a pliers type tool for crimping - similar to the wire crimper as previously mentioned.
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Years ago, I made my own crimp tool, by drilling out a hole in a cheap set of side cutters. Make sure they are a cheap set, as the good ones may be tough to drill.
Using them was slow, but it worked very well.
Using them was slow, but it worked very well.
- Location
- big sky country
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