Originally Posted By: reddog964When you set your seating die up you need to put a case in the shell holder and raise it to the top, then screw your seating die in until it touch's the casing then back it out a 1/4 to 1/2 turn and that is were you set/lock the lock ring and leave it set there... then back the seating stem out to were you know it will not seat the bullet your using to deep then start screwing it in until you get the lenght you want then lock it in place. this will help with brass that is not all trimmed to the same length and keep from pushing the neck into the shoulder when seating bullets, another thing that helps when seating bullets is using a VLD chamger tool on the inside of the necks when deburring them. flat base bullets can sometimes be harder to get started in the necks..
I learned all of the above the hard way with a few crushed cases to prove it. Good advice. Backing the sizing die out definitely fixed my problem. I just loaded 80 rounds and had only 2 cases that did not fit in my gauge.
