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Difficult Bullet Seating Experience
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<blockquote data-quote="Full Curl" data-source="post: 1348904" data-attributes="member: 47602"><p>After testing over the weekend, lightly chamfering and deburring the mouth after cleaning prior to FL sizing helped with more consistent tension with the expander ball passing through the neck and mouth. I then chamfered and deburred like I normally would after trimming, after sizing and then seating was much better. Much more consistent tension and no hard press force needed on any loads. They also shot very nicely so I think this will help out a lot in the future. If I run into any more issues I'll be looking into neck turning... I still don't really want to neck size alone because I'm building hunting ammo and like the couple thousands of shoulder insurance that bumping the shoulders gives me as far as making sure the shell will chamber without issue. Thank you to everybody for all the feedback and help!</p><p></p><p>On a side note, I called Forster and the tech said that he would polish the seating stem cap and also the bullet channel prior to that at no change if I sent the die back to him. He did say that the end of the seating stem can "grab" a bullet if it's a tab bit rough and pull it out a little when the case exits the die on the up stroke. This winter they will be getting all of my seating dies to polish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Full Curl, post: 1348904, member: 47602"] After testing over the weekend, lightly chamfering and deburring the mouth after cleaning prior to FL sizing helped with more consistent tension with the expander ball passing through the neck and mouth. I then chamfered and deburred like I normally would after trimming, after sizing and then seating was much better. Much more consistent tension and no hard press force needed on any loads. They also shot very nicely so I think this will help out a lot in the future. If I run into any more issues I'll be looking into neck turning... I still don't really want to neck size alone because I'm building hunting ammo and like the couple thousands of shoulder insurance that bumping the shoulders gives me as far as making sure the shell will chamber without issue. Thank you to everybody for all the feedback and help! On a side note, I called Forster and the tech said that he would polish the seating stem cap and also the bullet channel prior to that at no change if I sent the die back to him. He did say that the end of the seating stem can "grab" a bullet if it's a tab bit rough and pull it out a little when the case exits the die on the up stroke. This winter they will be getting all of my seating dies to polish. [/QUOTE]
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