What Lee die to use to seat full wadcutter .38 ?

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What Lee die to use to seat full wadcutter .38 ?

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In addition to 9mm, my primary round, loading on my new this year Lee Pro 4000, I've turned out a couple of boxes of .38SP 158g LRN.

My buddy gave me a bunch of 148g full wadcutters.

Do I need a special die to seat that flat nose flush to the case?
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Re: What Lee die to use to seat full wadcutter .38 ?

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I'm not sure if the standard Lee .38 seating stem will seat it flush, or not, but when I'm seating any semi-wadcutters, in .38/.357 or .44 I use Lee's flat seating plug, it may work better, available here:
https://leeprecision.com/custom-bullet-seating-plug
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You may be able to just turn the seating plug over . My experience using FP bullets that don't fit the plug is that it's too long for that . It should be within the adjustment range for a WC whether it is flush or nose out .
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