Whitezee

Thanks for the replys. I bought the hornady 2 die set, plus the Lee factory crimp die. I noticed at cabelas they had hornady American series dies which have a taper crimp built into the seater die. I'm starting to think I should have got the American series dies. I guess I'm going to very lightly crimp these with the Lee factory crimp die and see how it does.

Hello, just purchased a rock river arms .308ar and am also new to reloading. I have already purchased 300 hornady amax 155gr and 168gr projectiles. I realized after I got home that they do not have a cannelure, which from researching on this site seems to be important on a semi-auto due to possible bullet setbsck from recoil. I have a Lee factory crimp die, can I use this to put a light crimp on the amax bullets? Or should I return the amax and go with something like the SST that had a cannelure?