at the risk of making some of the more experienced here cringe I need to ask another Hornady LNL question. YES I am reading as much as I can in both the loading manuals I bought and on the innerweb, YES I know I should take a class and will if I can find time, and YES I know I should find an experienced reloader near me who will offer insights in exchange for witty banter and/or a case of beer or two...BUT for the time being I have approval from the boss to get a press and I need to act before she comes to her senses
my question (for today) is about crimping 40 SW rounds. my understanding is that this round needs a taper crimp, but I also understand that the Hornady 3 die set comes with a combo seat/crimp die that does some hybrid bastard part taper part roll crimp. If I want a true taper crimp I need to run the seat die and taper crimp die in seperate stations; which of course sucks up the spot I had allocated to my powder cop die. apparantly if I want to run the taper and cop die I need to combine the expander die and powder drop into the PTX expander die, which internet people seem to hate because it's not at all adjustable and doesn't do a particularly good job of expanding.
Is anyone here using the LNL to load .40 rounds and if you are what's your setup? Are you using Hornady dies or another brand? I plan on selling the sigpro and g22 (gotta pay for the reloading setup somehow right?) so I'm mainly concerned with feed performance in a HK USP and want to try some minor loads for IPSC if that makes a diff.
Thanks!
my question (for today) is about crimping 40 SW rounds. my understanding is that this round needs a taper crimp, but I also understand that the Hornady 3 die set comes with a combo seat/crimp die that does some hybrid bastard part taper part roll crimp. If I want a true taper crimp I need to run the seat die and taper crimp die in seperate stations; which of course sucks up the spot I had allocated to my powder cop die. apparantly if I want to run the taper and cop die I need to combine the expander die and powder drop into the PTX expander die, which internet people seem to hate because it's not at all adjustable and doesn't do a particularly good job of expanding.
Is anyone here using the LNL to load .40 rounds and if you are what's your setup? Are you using Hornady dies or another brand? I plan on selling the sigpro and g22 (gotta pay for the reloading setup somehow right?) so I'm mainly concerned with feed performance in a HK USP and want to try some minor loads for IPSC if that makes a diff.
Thanks!