OK, so I went out and spent a lot more money than I should have today on new equipment and the wife isn't exactly pleased. The worst part is, I can't even get the thing working right to show her that it was money well spent.

I bought a set of RCBS 3 pc. carbide dies. For the most part, I think I get the resizer/primer pusher outer thing and the belling die (I have no idea if these are what they're really called) set up properly. The problem is the 3rd die, the one that seats the bullet and crimps the casing. I can't get the damn thing to work!!!! Sorry, just a little frustrated.

Everytime I pull the handle on the press, the bullet actually ends up getting stuck inside the die. I've tried moving the whole die up and the pusher thing in the middle down, but to no avail. If I move the plunger up, the bullet doesn't get stuck, but it doesn't get pushed into the case either. I've only had one round so far come out ok, and that was with the bullet being sandwiched much too low into the brass.

Someone please help before I go ballistic and destroy my basement in a fit of rage directed at the reloading gods for not allowing my first time to go smoothly and making me look like a money wasting whore in front of my wife (ok, I really am that, I just didn't want to be exposed for a couple more years). :evil: