Frankford Universal seating dies and 223

[philcox]

For some reason, I feel like I am doing something wrong, I am trying to load 7 PM K, the 77 SMK, or 77 AeroMatch BUT I cannot get the bullet seated to the length that I need. Without brushing the case. I’m not sure what the deal is, and they sent me a second full die Set, and having the same problem. It seems to me that the seating stem does not protrude far enough down into the alignment sleeve, and when I get to a certain point actually get jammed in, and my still not. I tried one to crank it down a little bit, and you see the results of the compressed case.

If anyone has any ideas of what I’m doing wrong, or if this guy said just won’t seat an SMK at 2.226

 

[Huntintherain]

I’m having the same issue with the seating stem jamming/ getting stuck in the bushing and not allowing the bushing to go back down with the case and that happens before I get to book length spec. You could try polishing the seating stem down so it doesn’t stick in the die??

 

[philcox]

Note that I have no problem getting it seated with my standard RCBS 2-die set

 

[pbroski]

Are you using the longest seating stem? Mine will seat 77 TMK's to 2.226" without any problem.

 

[Taudisio]

Have the same set. Zero issues here. Just confirming, you have the .223 sleeve and the longest stem of the three in there? Die is set so the ram touches the base, not the sleeve? You are seating based on the actual measurements of the COAL and not the lines on the die? I typically seat to 2.300, but I have at least another .200 I could push it in if I so choose.