I normally have no issue with Lee dies, they work are a decent price and I've never had any issues with the way they function....until now. I bought a S&W XVR in 460 and where the sizer works fine, everything else is an issue. If you try to expand the brass (and with these die I HAVE to) to fit a bullet so it doesn't crush the brass trying to seat the bullet it won't fit into the bullet seater die. Okay, no problem, purchased a Lyman M die to see if the Lee expander die was not doing it's job properly...and no dice.
If I reduce the bell so that the brass fits up inside the bullet seater die, it either crushes, the brass, crushes the gummi tip (Hornady 200gr FTX) or pops the seater itself.
Now, I know how this is supposed to work, it just seems that the bullet seater die doesn't have enough threads to handle the long brass, especially if you go by what is in the directions (which I do read! ) even though I've done this a hundred times reloading for over 20 calibers (if you count the sub calibers I load for like .357 and .38spl).
So, after buying the M die, destroying 6 pieces of brass, ruining about that many bullets, I'm done with Lee with this particular caliber. Ordered the RCBS die set instead, plus, the RCBS dies are carbide!
So, this is just a heads up, in case you are looking to reload this particular caliber and using Lee dies to do it! I am kind of curious to find out if anyone else has had this issue loading 460 S&W with these dies.
Oh well, overall pleased with Lee reloading dies in the past....just this one time I'm having an issue.
Let me know if anyone here has had the same sort of issue with their 460 Lee dies!