I've been struggling with this for several days now.
I have no idea how to tell if I have any crimp, too much crimp, just enough crimp, etc. I've read the whole "if you can push the bullet deeper in the case by pushing it against the side of the bench, it's too light" advice from multiple places, but that doesn't help me, because I can push pretty damn hard.
I'm attaching a picture with three different reloaded cartridges in it, with what I think is three different levels of crimp. I need somebody to say "1 and 2 aren't enough, 3 is too much" so that I have a few visual points of comparison to know how far to go.
For information, I'm running Lee .38 special dies on a Lee Classic Turret press. So far, I've taken the advancing rod out and been running it in single stage mode. And my die set is the 4 die set, so I'm seating the bullet in one step, and then crimping with the factory crimp die in the next step.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
I have no idea how to tell if I have any crimp, too much crimp, just enough crimp, etc. I've read the whole "if you can push the bullet deeper in the case by pushing it against the side of the bench, it's too light" advice from multiple places, but that doesn't help me, because I can push pretty damn hard.
I'm attaching a picture with three different reloaded cartridges in it, with what I think is three different levels of crimp. I need somebody to say "1 and 2 aren't enough, 3 is too much" so that I have a few visual points of comparison to know how far to go.
For information, I'm running Lee .38 special dies on a Lee Classic Turret press. So far, I've taken the advancing rod out and been running it in single stage mode. And my die set is the 4 die set, so I'm seating the bullet in one step, and then crimping with the factory crimp die in the next step.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.