There is no need to turn it that far past contact. If you need to touch the shell holder on the base of the die your chamber is set too small or your brass is in need of some annealing right? Well most of the time anyway.

So when I said backk off a quarter turn I intended that to be from first contact. From reading your post I feel like you are together enough to get that though.


The lee press has a positive stop unless you grind or mill it off. Most other presses cam over.