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Mainehunt, I only crimp on the A-Frames or TBBC or Speer bullets in my 300RUM. This gun tends to really work the neck.

Really what my post says is I should anneal or buy new brass and forget about crimping but I do anyway. I have had success at crimping with the A-Frame.

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big country, thanks for the pointers, I really appreciate it.

Halcon, I am loading for the 300 Win Mag. 200 grain Sierra game king, 64 grains of IMR4350. The reason I asked about Eugene is because I have a sister who lives there. Heck of a ways from Maine. Her husband just shot a cow elk with a bow about 2-3 weeks back. I' m wicked jealous. :)

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Mainehunt There is good and bad things about every where , ask him when was the last time he went Moose hunting .Now I' m jealous , Have a good day halcon

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Halcon,
Yeah yuou' re right, grass is always greener ..........
Only problem with hunting moose in Maine is, I am a resident ,so I have about a 1 in 80 chance of " drawing" a moose permit. A NON-resident has about 1-10. These are round-about numbers. In other words, put in for a moose permit here and I' ll show you where to get one, because I' ve never been able to go :(

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I' ve found that using a Lee factory crimp die does slightly increase accuracy with several different cartridges I reload. I' ve never seen any improvement on rifle cartridges while crimping with a bullet seating die however.

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I don' t crimp my rifle shells but I do crimp my 44mag with a Lee Precisions crimp. Works great

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That' s real interesting. I assume that a " factory crimp " die would have to be made for each individual cartridge?

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Yup, its a collet crip die, you need a different die for each cartridge.

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Thanks Briman. I' m gonna get one and try it.

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