I am trying to use Ben's Red in a Lyman 4500 and it takes a lot of force to run the boolit down and up -- especially up, it feels as though the boolit has seized in the die. The lube flows well and fills the grooves, but doesn't seem to lube the boolit while in the die. I followed the recipe exactly, low heat and slow, and my batch is the color in Ben's pictures.
I'm sizing a 280 gr 45 caliber boolit to 0.452". I size this exact same boolit to 0.451" in another 4500 using Lyman Super Moly and the boolit glides down and up easily. I do not lube the boolit with anything before sizing in either case.
Has anyone else had this experience? I see suggestions to up the beeswax percentage, would that help? Would adding a little lanolin to the recipe solve my problem, and if so in what proportion?