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I just got some .38/.357 125 gr FP plated bullets from X-Treme Bullets. I'm impressed with their service and the quality of the bullets I received.
The bullets have a cannalure and I haven't loaded plated bullets with a cannalure before. I'm planning to use them in a Rossi carbine so I want to make sure the crimp keeps the recoil from further seating the bullets in the tubular magazine.
X-Treme's web site says to use a taper crimp, but the roll crimp just seems more secure. I did my first trials using a moderate roll crimp, seating the bullet so that the end of the brass is about the middle of the cannalure before crimping using a Lee FCD. I then used an inertia bullet puller to remove the bullet to see if the plating was broken. As you can see from the picture, the plating is not broken and the crimp ring doesn't seem too severe.
I have shot a few test cartridges in my M66 revolver and accuracy seems to be very good (at 25 feet) so I don't think the plating is being damaged during shooting either. I expect to load these bullets to "+P+" level loads (<6.0 gr HP-38 ) for the Rossi for target shooting, so I'm not going to be seeing magnum level recoils.
Thanks for the help.
The bullets have a cannalure and I haven't loaded plated bullets with a cannalure before. I'm planning to use them in a Rossi carbine so I want to make sure the crimp keeps the recoil from further seating the bullets in the tubular magazine.
X-Treme's web site says to use a taper crimp, but the roll crimp just seems more secure. I did my first trials using a moderate roll crimp, seating the bullet so that the end of the brass is about the middle of the cannalure before crimping using a Lee FCD. I then used an inertia bullet puller to remove the bullet to see if the plating was broken. As you can see from the picture, the plating is not broken and the crimp ring doesn't seem too severe.
I have shot a few test cartridges in my M66 revolver and accuracy seems to be very good (at 25 feet) so I don't think the plating is being damaged during shooting either. I expect to load these bullets to "+P+" level loads (<6.0 gr HP-38 ) for the Rossi for target shooting, so I'm not going to be seeing magnum level recoils.
Thanks for the help.
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