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Does the case mouth need to be chamfered with a VLD tool? Do regular seating stems usually work with VLDs?

No
and no issues with steating stems so far!

I've found VLD chamfering most necessary for flat-based bullets... The more efficient the boatail the less necessary the chamfer. Ymmv.

I've not had issues w/ standard seating stems w/ the few VLDs I've seated.

Thanks guys! Getting my first box of Bergers in an order by the end of the week.

Follow their instructions for seating depth trials from their website too.

my hornady dies in 25-06 and 6.5 creedmoor were not deep enough for the hunting vld's. I had to drill them deeper about 1/8".

gary

I use the VLD tool on all my brass, but they still need a brass brush wrapped with 0000 steel wool spun in a drill to smooth the inside, or else they still scrape the bullet jacket.

My hornady creedmoor dies came with 2 different seating stems. One was labeled amax and was for vld type bullets. I had a set of another brand of dies that seated off the bullet tip on vld's rather than the ogive and it caused run out issues.

Bb