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pushpullpete wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:30 pm Your comment about the tarnished bullets in the cardboard box made me think. This box was 2 1/2 maybe 3 yrs old. Stored in the box, in the garage. I believe I will change how I store my bullets in the future. I have dry packs in most everything except the new bullets. That never occurred to me. Until now. I've been happy w them until the blemishes. Now I realize that the blemishes were very likely my own fault. Thank You. Pete

i learn something new everytime i load and read
dillion now has a website dedicated to just reloading

https://reloader.com/?utm_source=Dillon ... 3ab7a8a2c7

as a side note
i picked up 2 k BLEMS from berrys last month of 9mm, as they had a good sale and i was stocking up for range bullets
for blems, they looked great, as in almost perfect


i also keep my bullets in a sealed container with a gasket, vice the cardboard package they are shipped in..
i did this after a few 1k 45 185 grn, hollow base round nose bullets looked slightly tarnished a about 5 years ago. mind you they had been in the cardboard box close to 2 years as i had built up a large back stock during a precarious time with dc
i use the 185 rn hb for range work to save weight and costs compared to the 230 grn bullet
we harvest brass as part of our range day and often pick up lots of once fired, especially the afternoon after leo qual mornings.
it all gets inspected at least 4 times as well
once as we pick it up, again as its sorted for cleaning and then after cleaning it gets a deep look, then the last look as its picked up to place in de priming spot.
normally i have between 3k and 10k bullets as back stock.

primers are getting low now so thats my new focus on finding them at better prices

i read your post about an hour before i reloaded 400 45 ACPs
i kept what you had written in my brain and watched my load and looked for any oddities.
i wanted to see if slight temp changes did anything to change my loads. it may or may not help your issue, but i figured a different loader or different processes may help you solve your issue with the bullets
i have used berrys bullets exclusively since i started re-loading, brass is "all the above" no aluminum, coated or weird brands
i have found some brass is heavier than the others,
room temp was 68 and bullets at start were 62
the dillion was room temp

my die opens the neck just enough to place the bullet on the case, with a just a touch of of enough bullet sliding past the neck to hold itself as the machine lifts the assembly up into the seating die

i had zero bullets drop or do any weird things
as i mentioned the resizing of the neck is only widened enough to sit the bullet on the case, enough to hold the bullet, but not let it go to seat depth until the press seats it.

i thought about your post and could only come up with my experience using the dillion square deal B
i check all settings at each start of load event, and once during the event at at around 400 rounds.
i check powder weights at 1st ten then at every reload of 100 primers.. i can say with my dillion;
once its set, it does not change any after 400 rounds. i use 400 as the point to clean up and recheck everything, not just powder or sizing, i mean everything,

thats what i like so much about it, once its set, your good for many rounds.

now at the end of 400 yesterday, my machine was still at room temp of 68. i am sure if the machine warmed up t say 75 or dropped to 40 it may have changed size just enough to maybe change things.

over my 20k plus reloads on this machine, i don't remember ever loading about 70 or below 65.
i use a micrometer non digital to measure OAL cartridge size, bullets etc and do measure completed cartridges at random as i wipe them down and put in the mm case

i use the less is more rule, on resizing brass to maximize longevity. i usually end up tossing brass that the primer pops out to easy,