Seating VLD bullets w/o damage

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Nathan

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I’m seating VLD bullets ang the seater is raising a burr on the bullet. I stopped, but how can I solve this issue so the bullet is unmarked by the seating stem?
 
Other than cosmetics does it matter? That bullet comes out of that barrel a whole lot uglier than it went in. A burr will get lost in the noise of 1000 other items that will throw off the accuracy of the shot most of which are will be on the human end of the shot.
 
The ring is lower on the bullet than what I would term the meplat...Is neck tension too high? Would neck lube help? or is it more likely related to seating stem fit to the vld nose shape?
 
From what your describing it not a burr.
Just cosmetic mark on the bullet due to the resistance of seating the bullet from the neck tension. If that made any sense.

The only one that i know of, and what Berger recommends is a Redding VLD seater stem.

That ring will not (should not),effect accuracy.
 
My Lee seating dies all did this.
First thing I did was drill out the seating plug to get it as close to bullet diameter as possible. This greatly improves OAL variance as well, since that point on the bullets is more consistent. Second, sand and polish it. Start with heavier grit and work your way up to polishing compound.
No more bullet rings.
 
Nathan,

That mark is common and is much less deep than a rifling mark. Rifling marks don't affect ballistics, so that shallower mark won't either. The air boundary layer over the bullet surface in flight is thicker than the depths of these corruptions of the surface.

The mark is down on the ogive because seating the bullet by its ogive should provide better centering of the bullet than pushing it in by the nose does. It should also provide the most consistent amount of bullet jump to the lands, though this depends on the exact bullet used and on how consistently you resize your cases.
 
Just a thought:

Worth asking (and research on) is would a circular ring cause aerodynamic buffeting where as the groves of the rifling being in parallel with direction of travel not?
 
all theory aside I have shot bullets with a nice little indent from a collet style puller as warmup and zeroing rounds at distance and never noticed a difference in POI
 
If you REALLY can't live with the ring from seating, most die companies (and some third parties) will make custom seater plugs.
Send in some bullets. They send back a seater (and maybe the bullets).
 
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