Issue with my Forster Ultimate seating die

[Unclenick]

Mississippi,

Yes. In this case it's the "normal" bullet that is special.

Incidentally, the standard RCBS seater works very well. In both sets of comparison tests I've seen (Rifleman's Journal and John Feamster's article in the Precision Shooting Reloading Guide), it always comes in better than RCBS's own match seater or second only to one like the Redding. The secret seems to be that the long thin threaded stem lets the ram position move enough to self-center. Indeed, if my case neck is straight and I use a Lyman M die to put a small step in a case mouth so the bullet is held perfectly straight up as it starts into the seater, the RCBS standard seater gives me concentricity second to none.

 

[Stats Shooter]

Update:

Because the current die and seating stem works great with my comp rifle....I decided not to send it in. Forster is sending me a different stem to see if it will work with the Accubonds. I suspect that it will, the guy at Forster said that my theory was plausible, which is that the current cup is formed to the ELD bullet after that many rounds, especially since it is a moderately compressed load.
In similar fashion, the new stem will, over time, form to the Nosler since it is a highly (110.7%) compressed load, but would work on almost any bullet initially.

Again though, if that doesn't work, I have absolutely no issues just using my standard RCBS seating die on hunting ammo since I only do 1 run about every 4 years so the convenience of setting up the Forster isn't a huge advantage.