Seating V-Max Projectiles

[Eargasm]

I picked up some pulled 40 grain .223 V-Max projectiles and with about 20% of them, the polymer tip gets bent or smashed, or causes the jacketed tip to start deforming when I seat them (I've tried both Lee and RCBS seating dies).

Have any of you had this problem with V-max projectiles? Is it just a problem that's inherent to small-mass projectiles (thin copper skin?)? Is it my seating die? Could it be that it's from the pulling process?

Thanks.

[spencerhut]

I've never had a problem and I've loaded thousands of new V-Max bullets over the years.

[Noonanda]

no problems here, using the 60 Gr ones in .223

[meaty-btz]

Try opening up your neck a tiny-little more. Sounds like too much force.

[Fjold]

Chamfer the case mouth more. If the tips are hitting the top of the seating plug, run an 1/8" drill bit into the seating plug to deepen the cavity.

[diego-ted]

Chamfer the case mouth more. If the tips are hitting the top of the seating plug, run an 1/8" drill bit into the seating plug to deepen the cavity.

Ding Ding, we have a winner. I had the same problem with my RCBS rock chucker using RCBS dies. ONce you put a good chamfer the bullit will sit straight up and down. The RCBS dies have a little ridge that the polymar gets caught on?

Diego

[damndave]

Never had that problem. Loaded plenty of V-Max and also A-Max bullets.