How deep to seat half jacket bullets

[Cummins_Powered]

I have some older speer 160 grn jacketed soft point bullets in 38cal. Im new to this reloading thing and im wondering how deep to seat the bullet/where to crimp.

Do i seat the bullet so all the copper jacket is inside the case?
Some copper showing?
Crimp on copper? or Crimp on the base of the lead?



The bullet is pictured on the top of this page, third from the right.

http://www.reloadammo.com/38loads.htm

[NorCalDustin]

Seat to whatever your manual says and then crimp...

[bohoki]

some copper showing -max oal length

[Cummins_Powered]

Seat to whatever your manual says and then crimp...

Dont have a manual with these exact bullets, apparently they were discontinued by speer and my speer manual only shows 148 grain in the same style.

some copper showing -max oal length

Ok, thats what i did, and its slightly under the max oal.

[J-cat]

No copper showing. End of case mouth even with the copper. Roll crimp into the lead.

[Solus]

try this manual

http://www.castpics.net/LoadData/OM/Speer6.pdf

[mark501w]

Load them to their normal legth but, don't load too slow they can shed their jackets.

[J-cat]

If you don't roll crimp over the end of the copper jacket they will pull out under recoil.

[mark501w]

That's something to think about

[Cummins_Powered]

J-cat, are you saying to crimp into the lead? Or copper?

[J-cat]

The lead.

The copper does not have anything to crimp into. By crimping over the copper into the lead you are creating a mechanical lock in front of the copper.

[Cummins_Powered]

Ok thanks that makes sense. There is no cannelour (sp? I think that's the right term?)

[XDRoX]

No copper showing. End of case mouth even with the copper. Roll crimp into the lead.

This.

[bohoki]

sorry if my answer cases any trouble ive not needed to crimp on 38 spl but maybe you have a really light weight snubbie

[Cummins_Powered]

It is in fact for a light weight snubbie. No worries.