Grandpa Shooter
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- Oct 11, 2007
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Trying to get my buddy set up with .243 Win. He ordered 85g jacketed soft point Flat base bullets. I have them sized and deprimed. Set out to do a test run and found that the die does not bell the case mouth at all and the base of the bullets is catching on the mouth of the case.
Bent a couple of cases and had to disassemble the seating die once to get a bent bullet out. Started looking through my spare parts and dies and came across a decapping sizing die for 9mm where the tip of the spindle just fits in the mouth of a .243 case.
Set up my RCBS rockchucker with the die and played around with trying to bell the mouth of a case. Actually with a little "bump" it opens the case mouth up just slightly and allows me to set the bullet in the mouth so it can be seated. Prime the case, throw some powder, seat and crimp and it's done.
Question is: Isn't the depriming/sizing die supposed to bell the case mouth slightly? I don't mind the extra step, but it would be a PIA if I wanted to produce much.
Bent a couple of cases and had to disassemble the seating die once to get a bent bullet out. Started looking through my spare parts and dies and came across a decapping sizing die for 9mm where the tip of the spindle just fits in the mouth of a .243 case.
Set up my RCBS rockchucker with the die and played around with trying to bell the mouth of a case. Actually with a little "bump" it opens the case mouth up just slightly and allows me to set the bullet in the mouth so it can be seated. Prime the case, throw some powder, seat and crimp and it's done.
Question is: Isn't the depriming/sizing die supposed to bell the case mouth slightly? I don't mind the extra step, but it would be a PIA if I wanted to produce much.