16in50calNavalRifle
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Apologies in advance if my hour of searching and reading in this forum missed a direct answer to my question - as always I do come across interesting threads and info when I search for a specific topic, so it's not a wasted effort. But I didn't find much directly on point.
Problem: seating a Remington 38 cal 125g semi-jacketed hollowpoint (in a 357 mag case) crushes/rounds off the soft lead hollowpoint so that it's sort of a roundnose with a hole. Using a Lee Turret and Lee 4-die 38/357 set.
My search turned up only one possible relevant comment: back out the seating/crimp die so that it seats only, and crimp in the FCD. I can see how this might work, if the crimping is creating tension that causes the seating stem to crush the soft lead.
I thought I recalled coming across references to special seating dies for HP bullets in other threads on other topics, but can't locate them.
Advice welcomed. I got 500 of these bullets very cheap as part of my reloading set-up purchase - otherwise I hadn't planned to load hollowpoint bullets at all, so these issues hadn't crossed my mind. So I might just sell the bullets - but in the event I'd like to load hollowpoints some day, I need to understand the actual solution.
Problem: seating a Remington 38 cal 125g semi-jacketed hollowpoint (in a 357 mag case) crushes/rounds off the soft lead hollowpoint so that it's sort of a roundnose with a hole. Using a Lee Turret and Lee 4-die 38/357 set.
My search turned up only one possible relevant comment: back out the seating/crimp die so that it seats only, and crimp in the FCD. I can see how this might work, if the crimping is creating tension that causes the seating stem to crush the soft lead.
I thought I recalled coming across references to special seating dies for HP bullets in other threads on other topics, but can't locate them.
Advice welcomed. I got 500 of these bullets very cheap as part of my reloading set-up purchase - otherwise I hadn't planned to load hollowpoint bullets at all, so these issues hadn't crossed my mind. So I might just sell the bullets - but in the event I'd like to load hollowpoints some day, I need to understand the actual solution.