My sizing die came in from Lodgewood today. It is actually from Northeast Trading Co. It is a push-through sizer.
While the instructions say it has a gentle lead-in for the bullet, looking down the bore it has a rather abrupt chamfer from the lead-in bore to the sizing bore.
The bullets require a considerable amount of force to get through. My pure lead Smith bullets drop at .518, and I am sizing to .515. I pretty much have to "plunge" them through to get them to go - I can't slowly press them through.
And when they go through, they extrude a wing on the tail of each bullet, which I will now have to cut off, thus altering the bullet weights.
Full-size pictures here: https://imgur.com/a/HEGU2OY
With 1:20 Tin:Lead bullets, I can't get them to go through the die at all. They jam in the sizer and I have to tap them back out from the top.
I'm using a Lee single stage press.
Should I be having this much trouble with this sizing die? My Lyman Lubrsizer knocks .578 bullets down to .576 without any problems at all.
Steve
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