Need advice on .218 bee reload

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Cdiehl2955

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I'm new to reloading and have only done a few calibers and only a few cartridges in those calibers, my dilemma is I'm reloading .218 bee ammo with winchester cases and Sierra 45 gr. spitzer sp and my old 80's/90's hornady book gives me a case trim length of 1.335 with a max length or 1.345. I've measured all of my cases and they are all between 1.338 and 1.343 and I went thro and deprimed/resized like all normal and I remeasured and all was still normal and I found one slightly dented case which I used for a dummy round to set my seating die for the bullets, it calls for a col of 1.650 for a hornady version bullet the same as what I have only in Sierra make( I lost the Sierra reload manual for the years of powder and bullets I have) but after seating the bullet down to a 1.690 depth I noticed that the case neck opening is starting to come up past the part of the bullet that starts the curve towards the point and it's not even close to being seated to the average depth of the bullets listed.... Suggestions are desperately seeked
 
I would also like to add that it fit in the rifle and closes and ejects great but does not feed from the clip when trying to reload just to add what happens
 
I would guess the ogive of the Sierra bullet you're using is a little steeper than the Hornady bullet that the manual refers to. Can you seat the bullet out a little longer without feeding problems or jamming into the lands?
 
I just looked up that bullet in my current Sierra manual. Sierra calls for an OAL of 1.680 with their 45g. bullet.

Good luck
 
I prob won't be able to use that bullet in my gun with that data then, it jams where it's at now and it's at 1.691 to be exact and still has casing neck protruding up past the bullets curve, when you look at it it looks over seated but measures not seated enough and thanks for the reply I appreciate it
 
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