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There may be more to Felix's response, but I learned something here a few months ago. I was going into the tumbler (SS pins / lemishine / dishsoap) with lube still on my pieces - it built up over...

I'm using about 80% lanolin, 20% castor oil (not precisely measured). I second contacting randyrat for the lanolin.

Here's an interesting page with photos: http://www.precisionballisticsllc.com/How_I_Build_My_Bulle.html He's local to me, but we've never met.

That's good feedback - thanks! I haven't had as much time as I wanted to test it yet, but while most of them make it into the bins, it seems like a few miss every time.

First, THANK YOU to all that have purchased swaging / reloading accessories from me over the past several months! Your interest and my desire to further improve the swaging process has led me to...

PM replied - thanks!

Awesome! Glad you're happy with it. The credit for the design goes to lcecil!

Pft. I don't think that's hoarding - it's a nice buy (about 3,275 .308 rounds - a year's worth between my semi auto & my LR bolt gun).

When I can find it, I try to buy 16lbs minimum at a time;...

No, not the Evil Roy - but got a set 2/3 IPSC with a hostage plate, 1/2 IPSC, a dueling tree and 3 poppers. The fun part was lugging them out of the show to the truck!

Parking is always a...

I hear you... it was busy and I'm still tired. The only reloading related things I am glad I saw are the new Hornady control center for their press (monitoring system with micro switches) and their...

I don't see J4 listed; Berger bullets is there; I didn't try to talk to anyone there - may stop back by and see if Walt is also here.

As expected, basically nothing here specifically on swaging....

Brian - there's also a through-the-scope adapted iPhone rig available (looked at it at SHOT yesterday). It mounts up with tubes, and there is an app that you're looking at - actually aiming through...

I polish my formed bullets in SS pins, Lemishine & a squirt of dish soap (after removing the lube with acetone - a lesson learned after getting some really weird colored bullets from residue lube...

@The Doctor: That's the same thing that went through my mind. Many companies don't really know how to innovate; it's probably easy to think "what can change with cast boolits..." :)

@Russel: I...

Just a drive by to mention an interesting conversation I had today at SHOT Show with one of the reps at the Lyman booth.

After I asked "what's new", she talked a bit about their bottom pour...

Ditto. I know nothing... but it's time to learn something! It will be a while before I can afford to buy, but this has nudged me to start studying up.

Got it - details sent. Thanks!

Awesome! Glad you're happy!

Absolutely spot-on advice. I get to go to lots of the conventions here in Vegas, and they are HUGE. I was able to get to SHOT 2 days last year and still didn't see 1/2 of what I wanted to see. It...

NSSF just confirmed my credentials... if any of you are going, it would be good to put a face with the name!

I have to work my FT job (I live in Vegas), so not completely sure yet which days /...

Bump for those who haven't yet read the links in post #27. Good stuff - it's helping me make better bullets :).

So after a good cleanup (boiling and Simple Green), I'm back in business with shiny jackets again (30 minute tumble).

It seems I missed the memo about removing the lube prior to tumbling. As...

Yes - everything I've tumbled has had the lanolin lube on it. Until this batch, the results were spectacular.

I'm cleaning everything up now (pins / tumbler / brass); we'll see what that gets...

Thanks, Brian - actually, I'm cleaning before I anneal to try to minimize the scale, and I am tumbling again after annealing. I'll give the pins / tumbler a cleaning and see what I get. I guess it...

I think that was me - you'd commented on the roundness of the jackets I was getting. BT assured me that was as designed; perhaps he (or others using his tools) will weigh in on my percentage? I...