Sizing them in a lube sizer base down pushing from the nose deforms them and starts compressing the 'wedge' resulting in a poor shooting bullet.
This is a good point. I size mine with a luberisizer and if the bullet is even the slightest offset from the sizing die it will scrape or even bend that side of the flange. I tend to pre-drop the plunger so that the base of the bullet kind of self-centers in the sizing die before plunging it down.
I think a nose-first sizer would be better, but I don't have one in .576 (what I shoot).
Steve
Steve Sheldon
Commander
4th Louisiana Delta Rifles
NRA Certified Muzzleloading Instructor
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