HeavyForCaliber

I have been able to minimize brass shavings, but not eliminate. When I first started loading 9mm with Lee dies, everything seemed to work properly using the setup instructions that came with the die set. Somewhere around 5K rounds, what I was doing no longer seemed to work very well. I had trouble shaving the coating off during seating (Bayou Bullets too) and ended up backing out the seating die and running the seating stem down really deep. This eliminated shaving. After solving that problem, I had brass shavings everywhere. After loading a few hundred rounds, my press and the floor underneath it looked like an episode of Gold Rush. I ended up tweaking the case flare to the absolute minimum before coating would get scraped and that helped a lot. I still get some brass shavings, but nothing extreme like before. I sent my dies to Lee for maintenance, and they did a few things to them, but informed me that some brass shavings are normal with 9mm, so I just ignored it after that. The odd thing is that some pieces of 9 brass load smoothly and do not create shavings (I use 1/2 turn of crimp on the FCD). Others scrape inside the FCD or shave burrs off the outside of the case mouth. I'm guessing it's variations in brass length, but I just load it, move on and make a mess. I do wonder if some other die set would make this problem go away.