One thing I found with the 299 shape Lyman,is you must use a metal hard enough to keep the point straight.I started with too soft,and it was hopeless.And for harder metal,I had to buy commercial at very high cost for mostly lead,IMHO.The bullet is a lot more pointed than it seems in the Lyman book.But never had any problem with fillout,just bullets sticking worse than any iron mold I have................EDIT&OT........Glad for the info on the Service Range crowd........Im thinking of moving out to the sticks,and one spot was next to a QRA range........seems it would be useless........and so I would need enough land to shoot on...........hopefully not surrounded by greenies.