loading 38/357's on a hornady lnl ap ?
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FITASC, I see that you are speaking to the dies not the station positions.
Sorry man.
Most of the die sets don't come with separate seating and crimp dies. Using separate die for seating and crimping is usually a lead bullet thing.
When you have small crimp grooves or no grooves at all on your lead bullets, using separate dies to seat and crimp helps to not cut a lead ring off the bullet because with all in one dies, the bullet is still moving from the seating plunger while the crimp is reducing the diameter of the mouth of the case.
The lead ring that is in front of the mouth of the bullet will cause chambering problems. This is mostly with lead bullets for semi autos that head space on the mouth and have no crimp groove but using two dies to seat and crimp make life easier with a roll or taper crimp with any caliber or type round your loading.
Lead bullets with larger crimp grooves (like for revolvers) are pretty easy to setup an all in one die for with no problems. Plated and jacketed bullets aren't really a concern with this problem with the copper plating or jacket being as hard or harder then the case.
Sorry man.
Most of the die sets don't come with separate seating and crimp dies. Using separate die for seating and crimping is usually a lead bullet thing.
When you have small crimp grooves or no grooves at all on your lead bullets, using separate dies to seat and crimp helps to not cut a lead ring off the bullet because with all in one dies, the bullet is still moving from the seating plunger while the crimp is reducing the diameter of the mouth of the case.
The lead ring that is in front of the mouth of the bullet will cause chambering problems. This is mostly with lead bullets for semi autos that head space on the mouth and have no crimp groove but using two dies to seat and crimp make life easier with a roll or taper crimp with any caliber or type round your loading.
Lead bullets with larger crimp grooves (like for revolvers) are pretty easy to setup an all in one die for with no problems. Plated and jacketed bullets aren't really a concern with this problem with the copper plating or jacket being as hard or harder then the case.
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That's good to know; and I am sure on a progressive it isn't that big of a deal. On a single stage, that is screwing in and out and working the handle one more time than necessary. I only load 158 LSWC in 38s and have been for over three decades; haven't changed that seat/crimp die once I originally got it set.
NO biggie!
NO biggie!