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Alright thanks…back to the bench with a plan. I do have Lee for half of my cartridge's. I did set these different now that I've been thinking about it. I think I discovered that crimp in the die and just ran the rest full blast. Dang…. I have to hit up father-in-law now for puller that grabs bullet. All I have is a pulling hammer and that sucks for crimped bullets.I did this exact same thing on my first 308 reloading excursion...
I tried to seat the bullet and set the crimp all at once - like various pistol caliber rounds that I reloaded previously.
I broke it in to 2 steps. Yes, it adds an extra step but you are not pushing a bullet to depth while trying so set the crimp at the same time. This causes unwanted force on the shoulder and pushes it down causing the bulge.
- I fixed my mistake by pulling apart ALL of my loads.
- Run the cases back through the sizer die (ensure you remove your decapper, or run it all the way up into the die) so you don't push your primer out.
- Pour powder as you normally would.
- Seat all of your bullets to depth.
- Back out the seater - and - back out the die a little bit.
- Set up the shell for a very slight crimp.
- If all goes well you shouldn't mushroom the shoulder.
If all else fails purchase a Lee crimp die to do the crimping.... like i did.
Lemme ask… if I pull the guts out of sizer…. Couldn't I just resize the shoulder area by pressing the full cartridge back into sizer?