Heeled bullets?

[shooter93]

A friend of mine got a mint shape...looks unfired martini cadet in 310. He got the mold and dies too. I cast him a few hunderd bullets today and I'm wondering about lubing them. It's a heeled bullet from an RCBS mold. It has a stop/driving band ahead of the heel shank and then a lube groove. How to lube the groove without lubing the shank? It's a round nose and I'm wondering if it could be done nose first in an RCBS sizer with out distorting it of lubing the shank too. I just want to lube not size. Anyone out there working much with heeled bullets? Thanks.

[felix]

Call up Harry_O. Prolly our board leader in that field. ... felix

[Buckshot]

............You could use Lee TL. Another possibility (brainstorming here) is to counterbore the ejector pin in a lube die to accept the heeled portion?

...............Buckshot

[Harry O]

Check this out. IF you have any questions afterward, PM me.

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/heelbullets.htm

BTW, there is a mould manufacturer in Australia that makes heel-base bullets for the .310 Cadet. Never tried to order from them, but they say they sell to the US.

http://www.castbulletengineering.bigpondhosting.com/photos/custom_003.htm

PS. This has some information on lubing them. It isn't easy. Crimping is important, too.

http://harryo.sixshootercommunity.org/

[45 2.1]

One way is this. Determine the size to diameter. Get a H&I die that size. Plug every lube hole but one level with lead shot. That level is the one that you will need to align the lube groove on the boolit once its in the sizer. Use the proper top punch and push the healed boolit into the sizer with the lube groove at the open set of holes in the die. Use a breaker bar on top to apply pressure, then back the pressure off all the way, eject boolit. It should just have lube in the lube groove. Repeat...............