OK this 380 is giving me a devil of a time now. I processed and shot ~50 rounds of golddot/xtp combinations to find a good load. Got back to the house with the same brass, decapped, sent it though the SS pins, and then dried it in the oven. This time around loading (with the same dies/setup as before) there is no tension on the bullets. I reset the crimp die, but it's like the brass isn't getting sized down enough to provide proper tension on the bullets.
I noticed it felt different went seating the rounds, so I took one and pressed the nose against my desk and it sank in deeper....not going to chance firing them. I switched to fresh brass and its back to normal tension and I can't push the round deeper, loaded with same dies/same setup.
Any ideas? Did I ruin the cases by using the oven to dry them? I seated a cast bullet round and it seemed much more 'snug' but it is .001-.002 larger than the factory JHP I bought for these rounds.