Ring around bullet

[Household]

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Not sure why the die is doing this, can someone please help me out.
Dies are brand new.
are these bullets safe to shoot with this ring around them?#


Thanks for all your guys help I just took the hornady dies back to the store and bought rcbs dies

 

[bcsteve]

Sharp edges on your seating stem.

 

[cam1936]

Depending how the bullet contacts the seater this can happen. There are ways around it, epoxy and a good release agent and you can conform the seater to a certan bullet.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

dam, thought it was gonna be a cool reloading song...


it's your seater die do the above or ignore it or put the seater into a drill and lightly polish/reshape it so it won't do it.

 

[Dogleg]

Sometimes a heavier chamfer will cure that.

 

[Longshot]

Happens in my .223 . Never has caused any problems so I just ignore it.

 

[fred0000]

Happens in my .223 . Never has caused any problems so I just ignore it.

X2, I can see the ring, but I cannot feel any imperfection at all, it has not been an issue.

 

[FLHTCUI]

What are those?
110grn for your .270 ?
Prolly wont cause any troubles.
Rob

 

[hometownhero]

Happens to some of mine as well. No ill performance form it that I have noticed.

 

[New Camper]

My 222rem die did that with 50gr VMAX until I chucked the seating stem in the drill and turned the sharp edge off with very fine sand paper. 600 grit aluminum oxide paper, if I remember correctly... that was years ago. The bullets I seated during first reloads did not seem to be adversely affected in accuracy. The rifle easily delivers under 1 moa without the ring around the bullet, and I recollect it did the same previously. The ring was close to the tip in my case though: The hollow point of the VMAX (filled with plastic tip), is easier to dent - the ring was about 3/32" down from where the plastic disappears into the bullet.

 

[bigedp51]

As stated above sharp edges on the seating stem, I use a Dremel tool and one of many rounded and tapered polishers to smooth and round the mouth of the seater stem.

 

[Household]

It's 110grn but its for a 30-06

 

[sunray]

"...these bullets safe to shoot..." Yep. The only part of the bullet that really matters is the base.

 

[Shibby!]

As stated above sharp edges on the seating stem, I use a Dremel tool and one of many rounded and tapered polishers to smooth and round the mouth of the seater stem.

I did exactly that to mine as well.

 

[Bitumen]

What brand dies? RCBS, Redding, Lee, etc...

 

[Cleftwynd]

"...these bullets safe to shoot..." Yep. The only part of the bullet that really matters is the base.

The base is very important, but.... you CAN'T be serious...... Joking? Or trolling....lol

 

[horseman2]

Those marks are similar to what was on some Nosler 180 BT that had been pulled from loaded ammo.
The marked ones were used for practice and the good ones for hunting. It was one of the hunting loads that claimed the mule deer in the picture to the left which scores around 156.

 

[ryan]

What you can do is take a one inch square of tinfoil, roll into a loose ball, insert into seating die and run the cartridge up. This works good and you can use a new piece for any other bullet shapes.

 

[joe-nwt]

Happens in my .223 . Never has caused any problems so I just ignore it.

Yep, harmless. Ignore it.

 

[hundmeister]

My rcbs and lee seaters do the same. you're better off seating a bullet pushing at that point rather than a inconsistent tip on a batch of bullets in my opinion. Pushing on the tip should give better coal. but to me its more important to have a good measurement at the ogive of the bullet. as long as you don't tear up the copper I think your GTG.