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Anyone use this same dual ring sizer for 10mm?

I've been out of town for a couple weeks. Finally back and wanted to report back on the resolution to this problem. I made two changes which corrected the problem. Installed the Mr. Bullet funnel and also turned the seating die the other way around (now using the round end rather than the truncated cone end). No change to the crimp. I can definitely see why everyone likes the Mr. Bullet funnel over the stock funnel. There is barely any bell at all, but yet the case is expanded and firmly holds the bullet straight. I ran a test: 5 without crimp, and 5 with crimp. None of the pulled bullets had any scrape at all on the coating. In hindsight, I don't think the flip of the seating die was necessary at all. Evidently the problem all along -- as several of you pointed out -- was that the bullet was not being held straight while seating. The Mr. B funnel removes this problem.

Thanks for the insight everyone! I'll experiment a little more to see if I can find out what's happening...while waiting for the Mr. Bullet Feeder to come from Midway. The rounds feed just fine in my Glocks, but I would like to identify the problem and remedy it.

The leaning seems to me like that is likely to cause the problem. I have the wad-cutter side facing down. It seemed to feel a little more solid than the round-nose side.

I'm using the Dillon dies. Hmm...I'm new to this, but to my eye the final crimp looks like it just removed the flare. Here is a finished round.

I posted the other day about my first batch on my first press (Dillon 650). I had a few rounds where the primer did not seat fully. I pulled those bullets today to fix them. This is what I saw...only one survived without scraping some of the coating off. I thought the location of the scraped off coating is a little strange. I would have expected any scrapage to be on the bottom of the bullet. So the question is whether I have too much or not enough flare?

Awesome! Thanks...I'll give it a try. Do you remember what length you use?

WST seemed to be one of the faves for the 147gr so I went with that for my first powder. Is this a good powder for the 124 TCG bullet too? Am I better off going with WSF or N320? I notice the case is pretty full (2/3rds'ish) with 3.5gr of WST. I would image around 4.1gr for the 124gr bullet. Thanks!

Makes sense as I'm pretty sure the shavings are brass and not lead. Thanks! I thought I saw a post somewhere about good/bad brass but couldn't put my finger on it. I can't even read some of the head stamps. If you don't mind, would you post your "bad brass" list for 9mm? Good points! Of course - makes perfect sense. Thanks!

Thanks! Yes - just to be cautious I tested all these in the case gauge and a few in my chamber. All work very well. I had maybe 2 that didn't quite seat all the way into the case gauge but still fit fine in the chamber.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try expanding the flare for the next batch. Here is the current flare: Also, quick question. I noticed that the powder has a bit of static cling to it. Here is the powder tube after emptying. I suppose that's normal. Do you do anything special to combat it? I haven't see that mentioned here before.

Yahoo! I just finished setting up my Dillon 650 yesterday. Its my first press and experience reloading. I thought I'd share a little about the experience. I didn't find it difficult at all to understand or setup. Calibrating the dies were quite simple. I spent the most time with the powder measure, measuring 5 charges, adjusting, and repeating the cycle. The only part I seem to have messed up is that the powder measure was not quite aligned with the failsafe rod. The rod was torqued slightly, causing some problems after about 100 rounds. For station 3, I used the RCBS lockout die. Worked perfectly....and very glad I took the time to set it up on this first batch. For the first batch, I used Bayou 147gr bullets, Winchester primers, & WST powder. I bought the powder and primers locally. I could only get 300 primers, so that's what I went with. The formula was from here on the forums. OAL: 1.135" WST: 3.5gr I noticed that the Bayou bullet is probably ever so slightly larger than it should be. It deforms the case just a tiny bit...almost immeasurable, but visible: I did have a little surprise in the box of bullets...this looks like a 124gr bullet that was thrown in just to make sure I'm paying attention! My mis-aligned failsafe rod started acting up after 100 rounds or so. It stopped resetting the powder measure on the up stroke, which caused some squib loads. Fortunately, the lockout die noticed before I did. I just pulled the rounds from the press (pretty easy) and set them aside since I wasn't sure what was going on at the time. After occurring a few times I finally realized the problem. Unfortunately, I ended up with a few rounds where the primer was not fully seated. I'm assuming this occurred after pulling the squib loads and me forgetting a full up stroke. I thought I was paying attention to that, but the evidence begs to differ. My final observation was being surprised by the metal shavings in the finished basket. A few of these shavings look like coating being shaved from the bullet, but most of those shaving are metal from the cases. Overall a pretty positive experience. I'm looking forward to the next round. I did shoot about 20 of these in my Glock 26 and Glock 17. I like this load combination...very accurate in my guns.