Accubond compression marks with Lee die

[steelyonfly]

I am new to reloading.  I am using the Lee Collet die set (neck size + seating die) for 338WM.  I am seating 225Gr Nosler Accubonds and am getting some very small compression marks or cracks just under the bonded tip that go around the bullet instead of down the bullet - you can see them and feel them.  I'm installing the die into the press according to instructions.  Has anyone else ran into this?  Could it be because the internal depth of the form inside the Lee seating die is too short for the Accubonds elongated shape and it is seating by pushing down on the tip instead of by pushing down against the curve of the bullet?

[GoldTip]

I am new to reloading.  I am using the Lee Collet die set (neck size + seating die) for 338WM.  I am seating 225Gr Nosler Accubonds and am getting some very small compression marks or cracks just under the bonded tip that go around the bullet instead of down the bullet - you can see them and feel them.  I'm installing the die into the press according to instructions.  Has anyone else ran into this?  Could it be because the internal depth of the form inside the Lee seating die is too short for the Accubonds elongated shape and it is seating by pushing down on the tip instead of by pushing down against the curve of the bullet?

Not being able to see the marks, I would say yes, it is pushing down on the tip and essentially almost starting expansion of the bullet while seating.  I load accubonds as well as sciroccos in my 300 and 325 and 25-06, for those calibers and bullets with a polymer tip such as ballistic tips, I only use Hornady dies, as the seat the bullet with a collar adoungd the body of the bullet.

[demontang]

Yeah I think it is stressing the bullet. I load those with my rcbs dies and have no marks on them.