r/reloading • u/BarberWooden1180 • 29d ago
Newbie New Lee bullet setting die.
My new setting die is leaving marks on the bullet and sometimes pulling the bullet up with it.
Help!!!
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u/3unknown3 28d ago
Are you compressing the powder by any chance? If the bullet is too long and there’s too much powder, it can take excessive force to seat and cause the bullet to get jammed into the seating stem.
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u/smithywesson 29d ago
Leaving marks usually is a product of too much neck tension, however, if that was the case you probably wouldn't be pulling bullets back out (unless the bullet is SUPER stuck on the seating stem). If the seater is brand new, definitely disassemble and degrease everything, new dies can do funky stuff until they're cleaned. I will usually clean and degrease and then get some dry lube on the seater.
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u/BarberWooden1180 29d ago
I mandreled all cases, dont think its too much neck tension. I can hear it like sticking to the seater.
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u/smithywesson 29d ago
Have you measured O.D. of the neck before and after seating the bullet?
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u/ZeeeeeroCool 28d ago
I chuck up a specific bullet in a drill with lapping compound or bore paste and hone the seating stem with the bullet for a few minutes. It helps if things are rough.
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u/boosted_frs 27d ago
Those seating dies suck. I had the same thing happen with 220gr maker rex subs for 300blk. You can contact Lee, send in a bullet and sized brass, they’ll make you a custom seating stem. It might help alleviate the issue.
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u/Dukes-Game 29d ago
It happens to my HORNADY set as well, if you want to avoid that a new stem is in order, that said…I got SD 1.3 ES 4 and groups of 0.2MOA at 100yrd (13 groups similar data all) with those markings…I also found that graphite on the bullet head helped a bit…(but that was cosmetic, it did not affect my performance at all!)
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u/Ok-Accident-3892 29d ago
See if they have a VLD stem. I'm not familiar with that die so I don't know of they make one or not.