Been doing load development for a new custom 280 AI. After using some other bullets decided to give the Badlands 140 gr Bulldozer a try. Charged some cases with selected powder and upon seating the very first bullet - the aluminum tip pulls out of the bullet and is stuck in my seating die. Can't get it out so now my seating die is useless. Ridiculous. Fairly new basic RCBS dies. What a way to start!! Not looking good for using Badlands
The Missus have a hot glue gun? If not, they're inexpensive (as anything else is these days) at a big box store.
Fire one up. Pull the stem out of your die while the gun is heating. Put a drop of WD-40 or light oil on a bullet tip, or shoe polish from a tin / Johnson's paste wax. Oil or wax, buff it with a paper towel.
When the gun is hot, squeeze a dollop of glue into the seating stem, press the bullet into it (by hand) and rotate the stem on the bullet - you want the glue to stick to the stem, not the bullet.
If the glue squeezes out around the bullet, NBD. Pull the bullet straight out of the stem. You should be left with a custom seating stem which fits your bullet. Trim any glue which extends past the mouth of the stem with a single edged blade or hobby knife or, if it doesn't interfere with the stem's fit in the die, leave it be.
Reassemble the die and adjust it as necessary: The glue you've added will seat the bullet a little deeper into the case. Back off the die until it just touches a round with this bullet seated to your desired depth.
Proceed. Remember to unplug the glue gun, else it'll sit there cooking the glue stick til you find it (or the missus wants it), days / weeks from now. AMHIK.
Quick-set epoxy works too. Oil or wax the bullet you use to form your modified die with it, also.
You shouldn't have to lube the bullets you seat - they won't stick, unless you're having to Hulk-seat bullets into the case.
