Bullet Seating

[Montana Cowboy]

Evening All
Things are a little hectic around here at the moment. Thanks for all the help.

Jack
Yes the seater stem is correct for the bullets I'm using. The loaded rounds do feed with no problem at all.

Adam
I'm seating cast as well as jacketed bullets. I bell the case mouth just enough to allow the case to accept the bullet, approx .030 - .050 bell to case mouth.
I'm using RCBS and Redding dies.
The case bulging is not a recent event they have always done this no matter what I've tried.

Rocky
I have not bothered to check case wall thickness. Usually I don't have to trim my revolver / pistol cases often. I check case length before every reloading and trim when required. When I trim I trim all the cases in the box to the same length at the same time this way I know I'm dealing with a known length on all cases.

Dakota

Yes the cases are trimmed square.
As for crimp I do a light crimp on my lead bullet loads and a moderate to heavy crimp when using WW-296 powder.
When crimping and seating bullets I do this in two seperate steps. First seat the bullet then back off the seater plug and adjust the die down to crimp. I use a factory round as a guide for crimping.

If it is just a cosmetic thing as Rocky has indicated I probably will just forget about it. My loads work well and have not had any feeding or extraction problems.
I'm just the type of person that figures that if the factory can do it I should be able to also. I know I'm not dealing with new brass on every re-load, maybe I should buy a box or two of new brass and see if it does the same thing. MC