Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Dimpling of plated bullets (NOW WITH PICTURES!)
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: RLMoeller on September 01, 2014, 05:41:31 PM ---Which brand of dies are you using for these? Did it comes with a couple different seating stems? Some will comes with two stems to match the profile of the bullet. Maybe you have the seating stem for HP/SWC and hadn't noticed an issue with a harder profile bullet before?
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Dillon dies. I Will have to check and see if it came with more than one.
Fly
newfalguy101:
Many times seating dies will come with insets for either roundnose or flat nose bullets, my guess is that you are using the flatnose insert combined with a minimal/non-existant belling operation.
I doubt you will notice the difference out of a duty type 9mm
tstuart34:
I reloaded 30 test loads this afternoon did not have any bullets that looked like these. I did get a few crooked going in the case and sheared off the side of the bullet.
shooter:
if your shearing the bullet, you may need a slightly larger expander, check the bullet diameter and make sure they didn't make a mistake and the bullets are to big around, this could also cause your dented nose
or your expander is undersized and not making the brass big enough
tstuart34:
I will look at that. I am using a used set of RCBS dies purchased from a show. I will measure some cases tomorrow when get out of class and head to the range to shoot these rounds. I was thinking I needed a bit more of flare. It wasn't on every case but I was struggling with it.
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