bds said:
ArchAngelCD said:
Lee die for the 45 Auto not flaring the neck enough not to shave the cover off a plated bullet
ArchAngelCD is going to send me some of the bullets.
If I experience the same problem of plating shaving with my Lee dies then the bullets will be suspect.
If I do not experience the same problem then problem would be something else.
OK, got the Berry's 185 gr HBRN bullets from ArchAngelCD.
- I initially measured all the bullets for out-of-round and they consistently measured .452" at several different places. These are very round bullets and we can rule out out-of-round bullets causing the shaving of plating.
- C-H 205 single stage press with Lee carbide die set (same brand as OP) were used and bullets were seated/taper crimped in the same step
- Unmodified brass (case mouth not chamfered) with BLAZER/FEDERAL/WIN/SPEER headstamp were used along with once-fired BLAZER brass with sharp case mouth edges
- After full-length resizing, case mouths measured around .467" - .468" at several places on the same case so the cases were relatively round after being resized
- Case wall measurements ranged .011" - .012" with most of measurements at .011"
- Case mouths were flared to about .472" which allowed the .452" sized bullets to just barely sit on the case mouth without tilting
- .471" taper crimp and 1.255" - 1.260" OAL/COL were used
Findings:
I did not experience shaving of plating. I even intentionally allowed a couple of the bullets to tilt when set on the case mouth and they were seated/taper crimped without shaving the plating.
The picture below is a representation of the test rounds loaded