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Thread: Help! top punch for Lyman 225450

  1. 01-22-2010, 01:17 PM #1
    six_gun
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    Help! top punch for Lyman 225450

    I am looking for a top punch for a Lyman 225450 bullet. This is a 48gr spire point bullet. If you have one you want to sell, let me know. If you know the number for the top punch let me know. Thanks guys
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  2. 01-22-2010, 01:29 PM #2
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    Since your mold casts a spire point just take any 22 Cal. top punch and drill the cavity deaper. Put some epoxy in the cavity, oil or wax the boolit nose, set top punch over boolit until epoxy cures [do this in your sizer] and you have a perfect top punch. I make almost all of my top punches this way.

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  3. 01-22-2010, 01:54 PM #3
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    Don't have my reference book handy but I believe it was a #450 top punch. I know the seating punch is the #450. I don't think they've made that top punch in quite a few years. You'll probably need to make one.
    I believe that there's a stickie on "Adventures in Top Punch Making" somewhere.
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  4. 01-28-2010, 01:43 PM #4
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