Originally Posted by Steve Redgwell
Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
Or you can blow the aluminum cap out the top of the die with a compound press.

Don’t ask how I know.

My learning curve damage was covered by Lee CS.

DF

You adjusted the die down too far into the press. smile

I guess you found out it's best to thread the die in, raise a case into the die and resize. Then try hand seating a bullet into the case mouth. If it slides in, tighten the collet die down 1/8 of a turn, repeating until the case mouth is small enough.

When the die came out, myself and others emailed Lee about that. All we heard were crickets. laugh

Yeah, I got it figured out eventually.

I didn't have Mathman's instructions, was just man handling it. It's amazing what a big compound press can do with some muscle power.

DF