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rg1 · July 23, 2012, 10:31 AM

I use the concave cupped seating punch with XTP pistol bullets for 9MM, 357 Mag, 44 mag, 45 ACP, and 40 SW. Works fine for me. I think the flat seater punch wouldn't do well on the irregular shapes of the hollowpoint bullets. I've read that you can order special punches for XTP bullets at RCBS and I don't know if others offer this service or not. I've polished the edges of some seating punches to prevent the edge from marking the bullets. I used very fine sandpaper and a bullet I'm using behind the paper to help make the punch match the contour of the bullet nose.

July 23, 2012, 10:31 AM	#3
rg1 Senior Member Join Date: November 6, 2001 Posts: 1,125	I use the concave cupped seating punch with XTP pistol bullets for 9MM, 357 Mag, 44 mag, 45 ACP, and 40 SW. Works fine for me. I think the flat seater punch wouldn't do well on the irregular shapes of the hollowpoint bullets. I've read that you can order special punches for XTP bullets at RCBS and I don't know if others offer this service or not. I've polished the edges of some seating punches to prevent the edge from marking the bullets. I used very fine sandpaper and a bullet I'm using behind the paper to help make the punch match the contour of the bullet nose.