Good morning. Just thought I would pop this in here.
I have been playing with some Hornady bullet feed dies. I have one for 38/357 and 45 acp.
I got the 38/357 one dropping cast bullets pretty much right away.
The 45 one actually drops the bullets smoother but I found that on both my presses, the cases like to catch on the lip of the die. This mashes them up bad.
I dinked around last night with both my presses trying to get it adjusted so that the case would enter perfectly strait.
Yea like thats gona happen.
I gave up on that and started to look at the die.
I have always been of the opinion Hornady leaves the lip of their dies to flat.
Here you can see there is a very slight bevel on the lip of the die. not much of one but it is just enough to piss you off.
Here is the die after I ground a new bevel into the lip. This solved that problem. It guides the cases in with out a hang. I suppose if the cases were belled for jacketed loads that would not have been an issue. But for the cast bullets to actually stay in the case mouth. You need it wider.
It was not off by much. Just enough.
tried it in both my presses and not one hang or catch. now she drops them perfect.
Time to put the seating die back on and lube some more bullets.