I have some West-Coast copper-plated 115gr round-nose 9mm bullets, but am having trouble when seating them - they end up seated "crooked", in other words: the bullet's nose is off-center and the bullet is angled in the case.
The slightest misalignment when I set the bullet on the open case mouth produces this problem, and even when great care is taken to place it exactly straight, it often ends up crooked anyway.
This is a strange problem to me because I've never had this problem before in 9mm, using a variety of jacketed bullets, in addition to Oregon Trail hard-cast lead.
I've tried an over-all length of 1.100" to 1.124" with no change in occurance of the problem.
I have two guesses: these bullets are significantly softer and thus don't "self align"; or the case isn't vertical (like a FP or SWC would be) long enough to align.
Any ideas?
thanks
-z
The slightest misalignment when I set the bullet on the open case mouth produces this problem, and even when great care is taken to place it exactly straight, it often ends up crooked anyway.
This is a strange problem to me because I've never had this problem before in 9mm, using a variety of jacketed bullets, in addition to Oregon Trail hard-cast lead.
I've tried an over-all length of 1.100" to 1.124" with no change in occurance of the problem.
I have two guesses: these bullets are significantly softer and thus don't "self align"; or the case isn't vertical (like a FP or SWC would be) long enough to align.
Any ideas?
thanks
-z