Re: Dies making mark on bullet
I put seating stems in the lathe and touch up with fine emery cloth.
Do a search and see, if it is not archived out of SH 2 year search, it may still be in Google search:
Someone here on SH puts epoxy in the stem and then partially seats a bullet, waits, and that way he has glass bedded the stem cup to a particular bullet shape.
I have been doing the lathe trick for over 10 years for many cartridges, and it works good enough for me. I actually had bullets get stuck in the seater die, not just ring around the ogive.