Hello All,
Great forum, I have to admit I am now strongly addicted to casting my own pistol boolits. I am a broke college student and although the start up costs of my operation were pretty significant I managed to keep everything down by going with LEE products. I know there are probably many people that don't like the LEE stuff, but for this question I'm sure it applies to any other brands or DYI cast resizers.
I got the LEE 6 cavity .452 round nose 200 gr mold and have been casting rounds for my RI 1911 GI, the casts it throws have been very good and just a bit over .454 or so with minimal deformation, lately it has been throwing some slightly noticeable deforms (i'm sure my own cocky behavior as I get more accustomed to the process is making it happen)
I bought the .451 resizer from LEE to fix a chambering problem with the base of the bullet being slightly large for the chamber, I think the .451 resizer fixed the problem. But this question stems from the fact that I am getting .449 and .450 diameters out of the sizer after about 200 rounds or so go through it. I thought that maybe the sizer was just off so I replaced the die with my .401 LEE and resized some 40 S&W 175 Truncated cones and the resizers were putting out .399 and .400 for a 40 S&W after about 100 rounds, I don't see this as too much of a problem for the .40 but I am worried that the problem might continue.
I was wondering what everyone thought about the situation and know if it is leading issue in the resizer or something else? And if it is leading, does anyone have any ideas on a remedy to get them sizing to factory performance again? I have had the cast bullets tumbled in ALOX before resizing.
Thanks for any help you can provide.