Dies marking bullets

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Naber

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Just wondering if you guys have seen any of your RCBS dies scratching the ogive when seating the bullets. The scratch is deep enough to feel with your finger nail and it goes all the way around. I was wondering if I could take it apart and polish the seater. It doesn't seem to hurt performance it looks real bad though (I shot a 1.6 @ 300 with them scratched like that today:) Oh yea its a 243 die if your wondering. Thanks. T
 
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I would say go for it as far as polishing it up.I made a special plug for my .223 Rem. because the factory plug wouldn`t seat a 50g vmax deep enough. My plug left a scratch too, untill I chucked it in my cordless drill and put some fine sandpaper to it.
 
Yea it's definitly harder on the bullets with softer/thinner copper. The sierra BKs I loaded today have been the worst so far. It put a prety deap gouge in them. Like I said though if it affected them it wasn't much.
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I also just bought a new rcbs 243 set and it is doing the exact same thing, interesting, I guess a call to rcbs would get the prob fixed?
 
Ok, I took the die apart and gave it a light hone job, problem solved. Now it gives a light shiney ring but no grooving at all. Like Hooked said my cordless and sand paper did the job. Later guys.
 
My .223 RCBS die does the same thing. Have you noticed it on any other bullet weights of the same caliber? I have only reloaded 50gr. vmax in the .223. I havent noticed it on my 6mm. 65gr vmax or 85gr sie GK. Maybe I had better look a little closer.
 
I think the ogive angle and the copper hardness make it worse on different bullets within the same caliber. Some of the hornady stuff I've loaded didn't mark at all but the 55g Sierras were bad bad. The hone job totaly fixed the problem and took less than 5 mins to boot. I stil think it bothered ME more than the bullet but if in my mind it looked bad I couldn't expect it to shoot good:)
 
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