I did buy a new die. I'm not getting any better results. I even tried my newer press to make sure I didn't have press/ram issues. I'm going to try the polish/lube fix next. Additionally, I'll give Lee a call on Monday. I'm willing to try to polish down .001 also, but before I do that, I want to eliminate any obvious problems. I have also tried new brass (Hornady), once fired W/W, with mixed results. Reminder that my issue is that I'm trying to seat a short 55 gr Nosler ballistic tip just deep enough to get past the "boat tail". Noslers data calls for that bullet to seat way out with a col of 2.710. I've used the original nsd to load a couple of thousand of those things. I may have had this issue in the past and never noticed the slip fit. That's one of the reasons I like boat tails when loading enough ammo to shoot pd's. Thanks for the replies. I'll update if I have any new data over the new couple of days.