Wilson Bullet Seater Question---

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Prince 555

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I recently purchased a used Wilson Remington .222 Chamber type
bullet seater. It is not the stainless model and has the micrometer
adjustable seater. I'm having trouble getting the bullets to seat any
shorter than 2.330 " overall length. Can these be seated by hand as
I don't have an Arbor Press ?


Thanks
 
The amount of pressure it takes to seat a bullet depends on the neck thickness of the brass, how much you sizer sizes the neck and how hard your brass is. Arbor presses are cheap.

I've only used the non micrometer wilsons so I can't say why you are running out of adjustment.
 
I'm using Remington brass & a 52 bthp bullet. The necks haven't been
turned or anything. It possibly could be too tight fitting.
Do you like the non-micrometer type a lot better ?

Thanks
 
I had already tried both of those adjustments. After firing the ctg. I used
an older Herter's Neck sizing die and sized only about 1/8 inch of the neck.
Someone had already removed the expander ball and left the de-priming pin.
I trimmed the case to minimum length and chamfered the inside and outside
edges.
The bullets seat pretty easy for about 1/8 inch then they just stop and
it takes an enormous amount of pressure to get them any deeper. Two of
them finally seated deeper with a loud crunch to the overall length of 2.010"
and 2.070"---way too deep.
There's a guy a few miles up the road that shot in competition several
years ago and I think he has used the Wilson hand dies a lot. I might try
and get him to check the problem.


Thanks
 
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