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Sometimes what you see isn't exactly what you get. After casting about 200 .338 bullets I started lube sizing and thought I had a mechanical problem with the equipment as the top two grooves wouldn't hold lube and made a mess. After a good cleaning the existing problem still manifested itself with absolute regularity.

Having not seen the forest for the trees at first out came the dial mic which I should have used first only to discover this new bullet has a taper from top to bottom of .330 to .340.

Called NOE the specs were looked up and sure enough my discovery was accurate it definitely was of taper design and not a mold imperfection. Apparently the designer used this config for a single shot target rifle with the bullet seated way out promoting superb accuracy.

Haven't loaded any yet but still think it carries enough lube to prevent leading or I can fill in the remainng grooves with the sticky finger method ..guess we'll see..