In the interest of making my 30-30 bullets fit without engraving heavily, I may finally have this figgered out. Of course I size the whole thing down to .310, but that is just the driving bands and so the nose is still too big.
So......
Right = a .3015 nose bullet.(before)
Left = a .300 nose bullet. (after)
Here's how I'm doing it.... a nose sizer in my lubesizer. It holds captive, a .300 (or whatever size you want) Redding nitride-bushing, inside the die. The top punch shoves the bullet down to whatever depth you like (just set the bottom punch to stop somewhere short of the .310 driving bands, I stopped a little short of the crimp groove) and the upstroke pushes the bullet back out with a nice shiny .300-exactly nose! Now, I'm thinking I can coat some bullets and size the bands with the Lee push-thru sizer, and resize the nose with this die. I used lubed bullets for the first pics because that's what I found first when I started rummaging for test bullets.
A closer pic of the die/bushing....
Shove 'er home.... ('bout this far in there)...
And up pops a nose sized bullet. Now to PC a few (the next chance I get) and see how this works. There is no lube involved here.... there are no holes in the side of the die... I just don't tighten the pressure screw when I use this die, even though the tube is full of CR.
So......
Right = a .3015 nose bullet.(before)
Left = a .300 nose bullet. (after)
Here's how I'm doing it.... a nose sizer in my lubesizer. It holds captive, a .300 (or whatever size you want) Redding nitride-bushing, inside the die. The top punch shoves the bullet down to whatever depth you like (just set the bottom punch to stop somewhere short of the .310 driving bands, I stopped a little short of the crimp groove) and the upstroke pushes the bullet back out with a nice shiny .300-exactly nose! Now, I'm thinking I can coat some bullets and size the bands with the Lee push-thru sizer, and resize the nose with this die. I used lubed bullets for the first pics because that's what I found first when I started rummaging for test bullets.
A closer pic of the die/bushing....
Shove 'er home.... ('bout this far in there)...
And up pops a nose sized bullet. Now to PC a few (the next chance I get) and see how this works. There is no lube involved here.... there are no holes in the side of the die... I just don't tighten the pressure screw when I use this die, even though the tube is full of CR.
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