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NordicRX8
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| Location: | Lost In Middle America, Ohio USA |
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Posted: 18 June 2008 01:35 AM |
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Anyone out there loading these bullets? Are your bullets getting damaged by the seater plug? I am using RCBS carbide dies and have even purchased the Gold Dot 185 and 230grn seater plugs (which work fine), but when it comes to the 230grn XTPs, I'm crushing them pretty bad. Anyone else out there using RCBS dies and loading these bullets? What seater plug are you using?
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Box13
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| Joined: | 21 May 2008 |
| Location: | Beaver Creek, Oregon USA |
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Posted: 19 June 2008 04:42 AM |
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| Are these .45 cal?I have used xtps with .45s for handguns and havnt had any trouble.Ill check what I loaded last.In fact I have loaded 4 or 5 different cals and never had a problem with xtps.Is there some way the cases are being sized incorrectly?What is being crushed the tip of the slug or the case?...Robin
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miestro_jerry
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| Joined: | 28 June 2008 |
| Location: | Somerton (AKA BFE), Ohio USA |
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Posted: 9 July 2008 12:43 AM |
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Could you scan one or take a picture of the area that is being crushed? I have used these bullets in 45 ACP and 44 Mag with no problems, I use RCBS and Hornady dies in both of these caliber, I am using the plu that came in the dies.
Jerry
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wheezengeezer
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| Joined: | 16 July 2007 |
| Location: | Jeddediah Jones Swamp, Kansas USA |
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Posted: 9 July 2008 02:11 PM |
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| sometimes when seating and crimping an ill fitting seat plug will damage the soft exposed lead tip.i prefer to make it 2 seperate operations
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NWPilgrim
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| Joined: | 5 October 2008 |
| Location: | Oregon USA |
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Posted: 22 October 2008 09:24 PM |
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+1 with Geezer
Seating by itself should not be exerting enough force to damage any hollowpoint. Only crimping would apply enough force to do so, but crimping should not be touching the bullet tip either.
I now do as Geezer suggests, seat in one operation and then crimp in another. I use a Lee factory crimp die for that which besides taper crimping it will also size the outside of the case to ensure it chambers properly.
If you want to try to fix your current set up, I would suggest backing the seating lug and and die way back and start the whole adjustment process over fresh. You may have the seating plug to far out and are having to screw the die in too far to get it seated which then severely overcrimps. But if you remove the crimp while seating and then remove the seating stem while crimping ther eis no way you can damage the hollowpoint.
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miestro_jerry
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Posted: 22 October 2008 09:31 PM |
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Another +1 with Geezer, I crimp as a separate die and action. I learned to do that many long years ago, about the time I bought a Dillon 450.
Jerry
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