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Berger bullets and using Lee die 204 ruger
I use Lee die to load 35 and 40gr Berger. But some times it messes the point up. If I goto the RCBS 204 ruger Competition set will it fix my trouble?
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I use the Redding competition die with both of those and most other brands of .20 caliber bullets without issues.
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I have RCBS, Redding and Whidden dies, for my various 20 calibers. No issues with any of them.
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You need to look at the shape of the tip of the bullet and the shape of the seater rod. Some folks have experienced tip deformation on the bullets when seating very frangible small bullets, like .172 VMAX and even some of the HP bullets.
One trick is to use some steel filled epoxy like JB Weld to fill in the seater tip, and using a bullet greased with some case lube, gently insert the bullet into the glob of JB Weld, gently remove the bullet and let the epoxy dry. That creates a seater tip that has the shape of your bullet of choice. |
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Tinman, in addition to fitting the seating stem to the bullet using epoxy. You might want to drill a 1/16'' hole in the very tip. this allows for variations in bullet tips. Especially the plastic tip bullets.
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Thanks for the additional detail. My Hornady dies have that feature, but the angles were wrong for the 17 cal VMAX, hence the need to reshape. As longer low drag bullets get even longer and more tapered, might start doing it for other calibers.
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