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I tried some of the other ideas brought up here.
Using that small drill press as an arbor press to seat them works best for me.
I can knock them out at a pretty good clip.

I've got a good spent primer recovery system on my press, they all get dumped into a bucket.
Haven't weighed it for a while, but they add up fast.

Yeah, a piece of tubing that'll push down over the brush should be a perfect tool.

Removing the breech plug from a muzzle loader is not a project to be taken lightly.

You might be able to get hold of it with a patch worm.
Or if it's a percussion, pull the nipple and dribble some powder into the flash channel and from there into the chamber and shoot it out.
I...

I have a bunch of WWII era 30 carbine brass.
I shoot it only in a Ruger BH, good brass and I give it no special attention, just keep using it.

It's the cheap teflon coating used on some of them that causes ingots to stick.
If you get it all burned off with a torch they work fine.
You just about have to get them cherry red to get the stuff...

Doesn't everybody?

Might as well, I've got to get some other things done around here.
Well, maybe a little shooting; I got some new loads for a 460 S&W I've been meaning to try out.
Those bullets ought to be cured,...

Well, durn. Still can't find the right combination.
I can get a couple different 300 grainers to shoot sweet out of that gun, but the 250 grain 454190 just won't cooperate. :veryconfu
I guess if...

? To who or about what was the comment directed? Of course it's loud, it's a 45 caliber in a big case burning a lot of powder.

I've had a hard time appreciating just how critical actual size is till I ran into the problems with this Lyman mold.
Since I don't have that many molds, I've probably been lucky and they've been...

Size must matter! :bigsmyl2:
I remembered I had part of a box of some commercial cast .452.
Ran some of them, slick as owl snot and not a spec of lead left behind.
I'm gonna regroup and cast a...

Pretty interesting stuff here. I think I'm going to spend some time with some slower powders and see how they affect POI and also the leading left behind.

Tried to reply yesterday, but something happened. Anyway, I'm still working on it.
Last loads were 8 grns of SR7625 and still quite a bit of leading.
This grouchy old curmudgeon would welcome any...

One time here in these forums there was a guy who was making a neat little machined aluminum block to hold the hand microscope that comes with the Lee Hardness Tester.
Anybody remember who, where,...

I got gobs of those strips mixed in the tubs of linotype I bought.

Thanks for the replies. All I use is pine chips. I go out to the wood pile and scoop up a coffee can full of saw chips when ever I need any. I only have a dipper, so I leave the ash on top of the...

The cylinder mouths on this thing don't have a good finish.
After one cylinder full a bullet won't drop through from fouling.
If I polish the mouths out with a bronze brush and some copper wool...

Hmm, well I dunno about this.
This 45 Colt I'm using is an Uberti New Dakota and must have a nominal .451 bore because I measure ~.4505 on the slug.
I shot this latest batch (unsized) with 6 grns...

I just cast about 75. That #2 alloy did help some.
They all seem to run on the heavy side of .453 now, I can feel the .452 die as they pass through ever so slightly.
All I can do now is shoot some....

The guy I got this mold from said it was an older type. He said new types had a bigger flat point.
I don't know enough about them to be sure, but the bullet looks just like the one in the picture...

Thanks much. I've only got 5 molds, but I've cast many thousands of bullets with them now and this Lyman is the first time I've had a run of so obviously under sized.
If I get back from town soon...

Shouldn't this mold drop near .454?
The one I have is consistently dropping around ~.452, or less.
Most will pass through a .452 sizer without touching.
I've checked bullets from another .454 mold...

Most of these I'll use in my S&W 460 and I'll probably start out with 39 grns of 4227 and work up to see how they do.
I'm going to give them all one more tumble with the lube.