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I love shooting the .40 S&W. Reloading is a different matter. Actually, it's the resizing that's the problem.
I prefer RCBS equipment. I keep hearing that they're not the best, so when the only carbide die set I could find for the caliber was Dillon Precision I bought it. It was a three-die standard set... only it wasn't. It had a resizing-decapping die, a bullet seating die and a crimping die. No belling die.
Anyone who has ever loaded a straight-walled case knows that belling makes bullet seating much easier. I found myself ruining a good third of my cartridges, because the mouth crumpled when I seated the bullet. So I mail-ordered a belling die from RCBS.
On top of that, no matter how I adjust the decapping pin, about one case in three needs more than one trip into the die to actually remove the expended primer!
That still leaves another problem, the worst. Many of the cases have a shiny belt around them about a third of the way up after resizing. This is not merely cosmetic, but can be felt by running a finger over it. It even shows on the inside in extreme examples. I throw most of these away, since a significant amount of brass has been shaved off. I don't want a case separation.
While some of all brands of cases seem to be affected, CBI, Fiocci and Winchester are the worst, in declining order.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Once the hoarding binge is over I'm going to buy a RCBS carbide resizing-decapping die. I doubt I'll buy Dillon Precision again. I'm tired of this.
I prefer RCBS equipment. I keep hearing that they're not the best, so when the only carbide die set I could find for the caliber was Dillon Precision I bought it. It was a three-die standard set... only it wasn't. It had a resizing-decapping die, a bullet seating die and a crimping die. No belling die.
Anyone who has ever loaded a straight-walled case knows that belling makes bullet seating much easier. I found myself ruining a good third of my cartridges, because the mouth crumpled when I seated the bullet. So I mail-ordered a belling die from RCBS.
On top of that, no matter how I adjust the decapping pin, about one case in three needs more than one trip into the die to actually remove the expended primer!
That still leaves another problem, the worst. Many of the cases have a shiny belt around them about a third of the way up after resizing. This is not merely cosmetic, but can be felt by running a finger over it. It even shows on the inside in extreme examples. I throw most of these away, since a significant amount of brass has been shaved off. I don't want a case separation.
While some of all brands of cases seem to be affected, CBI, Fiocci and Winchester are the worst, in declining order.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Once the hoarding binge is over I'm going to buy a RCBS carbide resizing-decapping die. I doubt I'll buy Dillon Precision again. I'm tired of this.
