Originally Posted by
Wayne Shaw, 1985V
I just use a flat top punch in my Lyman 450. Works fine and less $
Word of caution about using flat nose punches. A correctly profiled nose punch acts to center your bullet into the size die. A flat one doesn't, allowing the bullet to be misaligned, causing the grease grooves to be "wiped" on one side.
I'm not being smart on this. Experience is a hard teacher.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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