Papa Smurf here . I'm with LabGuy and been doing it that way for 50 + years .
When cool enough to handle, I'm good to go..........
A couple of my rifle molds drop at my rifles groove diameter with #2 alloy. If I cast ahead of time, a few months wait will have them where I can size them .001 over.
Dutch
"The future ain't what it used to be".
-Yogi Berra.
So the time to size a boolit is any time after it is cool enough not to melt the lube and before the Sun burns out in about 5 Billion years? I like this, no planning on my part is required.
BB
NOTE!
If you're planning on using HI-TEK Polymer coatings, DO NOT SIZE until you've done the
first coating.
Sizing closes up the leads surface and inhibits good adhesion of the coating.
Cast-Coat/Bake-Size-Coat/Bake again, you're set.
If I am air cooling my boolits then I will size them when ever I feel like it. If I water quench then I size right after casting.
Doc
I typically cast one night, size and lube the next and then set the boolits aside for a month or so.
Amendments
The Second there to protect the First!
http://www.lasc.us/SuperHard.htm
I am thinking the answer here is deeper than the way every one does it, I would think the place to start looking would be the Los Angeles Silhouette Club
Well, I air cool everything, so I just cast them up and put them away. When I want to load some up, I size & lube & load. Works. Mike
Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason. Benjamin Franklin
I guess I've never considered there was "wrong" time <shrug>
I've cast, lube-sized, loaded, and shot in the same day before.
This afternoon I finally got around to lube-sizing some Lyman #454190's I cast back in July... July of 2009‼
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |