So I have resized close to 900 of these and have run into a problem where about 45 of these have had a small bit of scrapping at the base which is ~5%:
The most egregious offenders being by my middle finger and index.... there's maybe like 3 of the 45 like that. All, even the ones with the nicks shown, pass the smash test.
Now my question is are these salvageable by a quick powder dip n' bake or would the leading be so negligible they should just be loaded as is?? Culling 5% after a powder bake seems to be a lot of wasted effort, surely something can be done.
More so I am trying to conjecture why is this happening. I don't think it's the dye because I should see a higher % with this problem, I am guessing I just chopped the sprew too soon, or the sprew plate screw walked before I caught it early enough leading to the base being a little off which got caught in sizer tearing the PC a bit off.
If there is one thing I hate, it is deleading my m&p 9L barrel - did that once and swore I would never run any lead exposed bullets through it again.
What are you fellas' thoughts?
Edit: The boolits dropped were about .359 after PC .363 ran them through a lee .357 sizer and they measure .358-.359 after.