So I've been shooting for years but never reloaded or cast my own boolits. A friend of the family recently passed away and I inherited a ton of reloading and casting equipment. I've bought books and studied articles online and looked around here for answers to my many questions. I'll start with a pretty basic one that I can't seem to find a definitive answer on...One of the things I acquired is a Seaco Lubri-Sizer along with some dies and top punches. I'd eventually like to cast some boolits for my M1 Garand and a Japanese Arisaka 99 (7.7mm). The M1 uses .308's and the Arisaka, .311's. What size moulds would I be looking for? I assume it would have to be slightly larger that the final boolit size/die, correct, like a .309 for the M1 and a .312 for the Arisaka? How much larger can I go, 1/1000th 2, 3, 4/1000th? What is the rule of thumb? Say I get a .310 mould for my M1 and swage it though the die to make it .308....what happens to that .002 of lead? Does it get squeezed into the boolit or is it shaved off on the outside of the die? Sorry if this is too basic!