Bullet seating stem mashing bullet tips

Had the same problem a while back and I just applied the same solution as sizing an odd shaped cast bullet that I have no nose punch for. I screwed the seated die stem up all the way and put a small amount of aluminum foil lightly wadded up with a piece of bees wax holding it on the seater stem. I slowly lowered the stem until it just touched the bullet with the ram all the way up, and ever so slowly worked the die down with multiple steps. Basically the piece of wadded up tinfoil will conform to the shape of the bullet nose and will apply the seating pressure to the whole bullet ogive instead of just the tip of the bullet. No more problems. When you are done you can simply remove the wadded up tinfoil and it is back to normal.
 
hunter64 said:
Had the same problem a while back and I just applied the same solution as sizing an odd shaped cast bullet that I have no nose punch for. I screwed the seated die stem up all the way and put a small amount of aluminum foil lightly wadded up with a piece of bees wax holding it on the seater stem. I slowly lowered the stem until it just touched the bullet with the ram all the way up, and ever so slowly worked the die down with multiple steps. Basically the piece of wadded up tinfoil will conform to the shape of the bullet nose and will apply the seating pressure to the whole bullet ogive instead of just the tip of the bullet. No more problems. When you are done you can simply remove the wadded up tinfoil and it is back to normal.
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Very clever! :cheers:
 
Hey mate, My seater die does this on the .375win dies i got, Each time i press down an seat the pill, or pull it up an give it a little stiffer press, the tops get pressed up an comes out "abnormal"
, will read the whole thread to see what the issue is...... i guess its just the cup of the seater
 
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