Micro band boolits

[VA Shooter]

Can I size these in a lyman 4500 sizer

[44man]

Sure, and they work fine with a good lube. Just don't size so much you wipe out GG's.

[hornady]

I don’t see why not, you will still need to tumble lube them. I don’t think you could get them to hold enough lube from your 4500. But this is an opinion never tried, someone else may know .

[44man]

I don’t see why not, you will still need to tumble lube them. I don’t think you could get them to hold enough lube from your 4500. But this is an opinion never tried, someone else may know .
I didn't think of lube hole alignment!
I lube all my boolits by hand with Felix and use Lee dies to remove excess lube.

[imashooter2]

I've seen pictures of micro band boolits conventionally lubed, so clearly it works.

[DLCTEX]

I do it all the time, no problems.

[Floydster]

Works fine for me lubing on my Lyman 45:)

[mdi]

I've read that it works fine, if you don't size the boolit enough to remove he grooves. I tried sizing some .433" T/L groove boolits to .429" - .430" and there wasn't much left as far as lube grooves...

[Larry Gibson]

I've read that it works fine, if you don't size the boolit enough to remove he grooves. I tried sizing some .433" T/L groove boolits to .429" - .430" and there wasn't much left as far as lube grooves...

If that is a problem then size and lube the TL bullets with an H dies that is the "as cast" or slightly smaller diameter. Then push size the lubed bullets through a Lee sizer of the size wanted. The lube in the grooves compresses very littel and maintains the lube grooves. I regularly size .314 - .315 TL bullets in my 450 with a .314 H dies. I then can size them down to .309 if necessary. I normally don't size TL bullets prelubed more than .003 so I size to .311 and then to .309. I also regularly do the same with .38 TL bullets sizing them from .362 to .360 or .358 and .44 TL bullets sizing them down from .433 to .429.

Larry Gibson