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<blockquote data-quote="DartonJager" data-source="post: 2630653" data-attributes="member: 95733"><p>When I first started reloading bottle necked rifle cartridges (30 years ago) I purchased a RCBS reloading kit that had a double ended champhering and de-burring tool which was designed to be used on any caliber up to .458".</p><p></p><p>I used it as per its instructions but still was shaving off shards of copper jacket when I seated my flat based bullets. Consulted my manuals but they weren't much help. Called Redding because I was using Redding dies. The tech a very friendly and polite guy told me I needed to get a VLD champher tool and to make myself a case mouth polishing tool using 0000 steel wool. He also suggested I switch to a boat tailed bullet but I said my gun shoots Nosler Partitions in to nice ragged holes and I just bought a considerable number of them all the same lot# so I would be understandably very unwilling to ****can 500 perfectly good bullets that shoot very well from my gun.</p><p></p><p>I ordered a VLD champher tool from IIRC Natchezz or Midsouth and took an old section of aluminum pistol cleaning rod shortened it so it would work in my Dewalt battery drill took a copper bore brush wrapped it in 0000 SW and bloused the steel wool so it would polish both the inside and outside of the case mouth. To check to see how well it worked I seated then pulled a few bullets on unprimed or charged cases and they looked essentially untouched. My copper jacket shaving issues were solved.</p><p></p><p>I still to this day do this as part of my reloading process for all my rifle cartridges from 223 to 450 Bushmaster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DartonJager, post: 2630653, member: 95733"] When I first started reloading bottle necked rifle cartridges (30 years ago) I purchased a RCBS reloading kit that had a double ended champhering and de-burring tool which was designed to be used on any caliber up to .458". I used it as per its instructions but still was shaving off shards of copper jacket when I seated my flat based bullets. Consulted my manuals but they weren't much help. Called Redding because I was using Redding dies. The tech a very friendly and polite guy told me I needed to get a VLD champher tool and to make myself a case mouth polishing tool using 0000 steel wool. He also suggested I switch to a boat tailed bullet but I said my gun shoots Nosler Partitions in to nice ragged holes and I just bought a considerable number of them all the same lot# so I would be understandably very unwilling to ****can 500 perfectly good bullets that shoot very well from my gun. I ordered a VLD champher tool from IIRC Natchezz or Midsouth and took an old section of aluminum pistol cleaning rod shortened it so it would work in my Dewalt battery drill took a copper bore brush wrapped it in 0000 SW and bloused the steel wool so it would polish both the inside and outside of the case mouth. To check to see how well it worked I seated then pulled a few bullets on unprimed or charged cases and they looked essentially untouched. My copper jacket shaving issues were solved. I still to this day do this as part of my reloading process for all my rifle cartridges from 223 to 450 Bushmaster. [/QUOTE]
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