Every now and then I'll see a beautiful picture of a cast boolit posted on these forums. They are clean, shiny, lead with crisp colorful lube bands.
Are those bullets "prepared" for photographic purposes? Or do you guys have a method or tool that lubes boolits that cleanly?
I pan-lube mine, cut them out, then push them through a Lee sizer. They come out of the lube-cake looking greasy. Then after a trip through the sizer the bands look sharp, but there's usually a ring of lube right at the start of the ogive on the nose. Normally, I just shot ugly boolits, but that was with lever actions and wheel guns. Now I'm tinkering with a 9mm and it helps the auto-loader to have clean ammo.
So what am I doing wrong?
Lube is 50-50 beeswax and deer tallow. Pretty tacky stuff.