Have made a couple drawing's of a custom bullet seater for the .32 LC heeled bullet. Will give it more thought then fabricate one . See the need to get the Heeled bullet seated straight . The heel is so short I think there is NO room for error . What are your thought's ....Dusty
Dusty,
I have yet to actaly fire any .32 fully loaded rounds. Only dare to pope a primer at home about once a week to test a firing pin position or adapter case design, Never with a Charge nor Bullet though.
My own trials with dummy loading, then pulling the bullets, indicate to me a 'SLIGHT' belling of the .32 case mouth and careful hand setting of the bullet on the 'belled' mouth while the case is in the shell holder under a seating die will seat the Heeled bullet straight.
It takes a gentle 'feel' on the press handle to just push the bullet in until the mouth of the case touches the Base of he Driving Band. Checking them by "eye" for concentrically and squareness of the seating looked good to me. I did not crimp these trials as I did not want to overwork the brass.
Note that I had the 'seating plug run fully inot the top of the die so i was NOT hitting the reduced bore diameter of the roll crimping edge with the Front of the Driving Bands.
This technique seems to work on .32 Short, .32 Long, and .32 Extra long case lengths; however I was unable to try the .32 Extra Short in my seating die, the bullet just touched the punch when the Shell Holder 'two blocked' against the bottom of the die. I know because the bullet was just started into the case mouth but well short of the base of the Driving Band. I was using "299153" bullets for the testing.
Since the 'Extra Shorts are only an experiment, and I only have 6 of that length, and then only to see if I could trim to that length if the need arose in the future; I have not modified a seating die to fit the Extra Short cases.
The 'Bell' I have used is just detectible by feel and the inside edge of the mouth is just slightly larger in diameter than the Heel in question (299153 heel). for my "311090A" bullets, I would need a slightly deeper 'Bell' because that heel is slightly larger in diameter.
As to Crimping the Extra Short case. I do think a dedicated custom shell holder would work with the 'Old West Molds" modified collet crimp die but I have not pursued that yet.
The "OWM" adjustable custom shell holder that came with my "OWM' modified collet crimp die does adjust for .75" through .93" case lengths though. (right at the 'edge' of its range at both ends though.)
Best Regards,
Chev. William