Article: Crimping your style.(Reloading Bench)

Article: The ROLL Crimp Lives.
Guns Magazine;  March 1, 2001 ;     535 words ... ... advertising campaigns demonized the roll crimp and the overshot wad. We were told that ... clay pigeons were successfully shot with roll-crimp shells, the old bugaboo about blown ... ain't necessarily so." Today, the roll crimp is still employed by most factories for ...

Article: Questions & answers.
Handguns;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... for auto pistols came with the same roll-crimp die as used for revolvers and, if applied ... for headspace purposes and increase bullet pull for better powder combustion as well ... fired and case-length differences. Bullet pull is substantially affected between new ...

Article: Organizing your loading setup. (Handloader).
Guns Magazine;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... concern but for revolver cartridges that depend upon a good roll crimp for proper performance it can be an issue. We adjust a seat ... of the factors that determines how a powder burns is called bullet pull. Especially with magnum loads there needs to be resistance ...

Article: Crimping.
Handguns;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... bullet out of the cartridge case. The roll crimp resists this force. As an added benefit ... normally works well enough with either the roll crimp or the taper crimp, but is hard for ... adjustment. For the best crimp using a roll crimp, and noting the large change with only ...

Article: Adjusting dies: the procedure for adjusting loading dies is ...
Guns Magazine;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... then set the overall length. With a roll crimp it's a little different because we ... and see where things end up. With a roll crimp you will feel resistance to the forming ... It is hard to quantify the amount of roll crimp to apply and most of the time it is easiest ...

Article: Old reliable: the .38 Special.(Reloading Bench)
Handguns;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... taper crimp and a properly sized belling stem. I know that a roll crimp is traditional and in some applications in other calibers ... taper crimp is more forgiving of differing case lengths than a roll crimp. Crimp into the groove or into the bullet-bearing surface ...

Article: The .500 Wyoming Express: a powerful new .50-caliber single ...
Handguns;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... WE belt serves to control headspace, which allows a heavy roll crimp to be applied. The .500 WE generates enough recoil to require ... cartridges, in either factory loads or handloads, to have a heavy roll crimp to prevent bullets from jumping or "walking" out the end ...