Reloading question

[Micheal Doyne]

" A crimp is detrimental to accuracy. A

This is an interesting statement, I have found with my own reloading that all my lee enfields (and other .303s) group tighter with rounds that have had a light to medium crimp applied. I use lee dies, neck-sizing only on brass dedicated to each rifle and a lee crimping die. This improvement may be only due to another limitation in my rounds however I think as a blanket statement there significant evidence to the contrary in a number of instances.

I have had good groupings in the past with rounds un crimped and with almost no neck tension, however this was only when the rounds where loaded singlely and great care was taken during storage and handling not to disrupt seating depth. In general I found this to be impractical, as typically one or two in the group would be disrupted. Over all the best consistency I have achieved is with a light crimp.