Hornady SST's and Crimping

[stinkitup]

Hi Everyone

I have some 140gr Hornady SST's for my 6.5 and wondering if anybody else has hand loaded these? They have like a cannular ring it seems on them do I need to or have to crimp these when loading?

Cheers
Ryan

[Klicker]

I've got some hornady spitzers that I have test loaded, they have canular rings and nope, I wasn't crimping them on the canular. Pretty sure its not required, just a nice to have if you want to crimp and think it also changes impact behaviour.

[Kenny]

Klicker got it .....should be no need to crimp.
I think crimping is only needed if you experience the pills moving back in the case from recoil whilst in the magazine.....or for a level of safety in a tubular style magazine......though I never crimp my 30/30 loads

I have crimped some old .303 loads when using a .308 pill and it is just a pain in the arse.......

KY

[trevort]

I use them in my 300 wsm, no crimping

[glenn asher]

Hornady uses cannelures to help keep the core inside the jacket, to assist in keeping the bullet together. One way to tell what a Hornady bullet is useful for, is to look for a cannelure, if it has one, it's suitable for game use. If it doesn't have a cannelure, it's either a varmint bullet, or a target bullet. That's straight from the Hornady manuals, and from two visits to the factory.


It doesn't always work, though , I've had 140 BTSPs (.277 dia.) with Cannelures, explode like a handgrenade on whitetails.

[stinkitup]

Great thanks everyone hopefully load some up over the weekend. Thought these looked like a good pig pill in the 6.5 swede so will have to wait and see

Cheers
Ryan