After all the videos and reading about each step, i finally started the next step of seating the bullet. I was inching the bullet down bit by bit and this is what it started to do. Where did I mess this one up? I figured it out. Hopefully i can help someone not do what I did.
Never seen that one. Maybe trying to put a .284 in a .277 or something like that.
Yup, looks like wrong caliber bullet made the shoulder hunch. That’s hard to do on a 35 degree shoulder.
That is what i initially was thinking when i first saw it, so i checked my brass and bullets for the ump-teenth time. I am so obsessive compulsive about this that i am nervous to do the next step so when i saw this i felt like a failure, but my case and bullets were the same caliber. These are new Starline brass and they say to resize the brass first so i did, and thought maybe i didnt chamfer the neck enough. That wasn’t the case either.
What happened is I didnt back my seating die off enough initially. The seating die is aslo a crimping die. So when i pushed it on I crimped the die first. Then as i started adjusting the seating pin down it pushed the bullet down on a crimped case causing the case to appear like it was cold and shriveled like a scrotum at the Arctic Circle. Giving the same effect as if i had tried to seat a bullet that was too big on a smaller case.
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Been reloading since 1983. Never crimped anything except semi auto or lever guns Just saying.
I am not an expert by any means but try it without crimping see how it effects velocity.
Yes, i didnt mean to crimp it at all. I just didnt remember to bring the die back up. I didnt even remember that die even crimped the case.
My guess: Seating die is set to deep and touching your neck and shoulder prior to driving the bullet.
you will always feel a bullet go in smooth with no crunch.