Well, I loaded my first 100 rounds of hard cast bullets ever today. I think it was a success. I will know tomorrow. Anyway, I did my seating and crimping in two separate steps. While crimping, was regularly getting small brass shavings falling out of the die. I figure this means one of three things.
1) I belled/flaired the case mouths too much.
2) I crimped too much.
3) I've got a defect in my die.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Oh, because someone might ask. I was reloading 454 Casull. It was all once fired (factory) brass, Winchester for 50 rounds and HSM for 50 rounds. I loaded 340g Beartooth LFNGC .452 and 265g Cast Performance WFNGC .452. I used Hornady Titanium Nitride dies. Everything went smoothly except that little brass shavings hiccup on the last step.