I've finally loaded my 1st 15 rounds of .338 Spectre. I'll be testing them next weekend in my AR15.
first here is my recipe: 250 gr Hornady RN, 14.5grs Reloader 7, WLP primers, and Starline 10mm mag brass.
This is leading to my question. I got my dies from
http://www.ch4d.com/ Because of the length of the bullet, I had to back out the seating die, and the seater stem way out. In this fashion, the seating die provides no crimp. The bullet is held in by case neck tension, which seems more than sufficient.
Do I have the die adjusted correct? Is the die supposed to crimp? Should I get the seater stem machined way down to make it shorter allowing the die's shoulder to contact the cases shoulder, providing a crimp, if it even would?
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