I picked up an older star luber. It already had a .452 die in it and the top punch was made for a semi wad cutter, but I'm feeding them nose down. The die was a 2 grove so I plugged the top set of holes with shot. I also cleaned out all the old lube, put a base heater on it and put in hard lube. I'm sizing Lyman cast {452374} 225 GR RN Quenched in water.
My trouble is I'm deforming the noses when they hit the base of the other bullet to push it through. It's even leaving an indent in the base of the bullet where the nose hits it. It is sizing hard some times, but I'm only taking off .001 if that. I also adjusted the top punch down as far as I could and still put lube in the grove. I tryed to lube the boolits before, but with no results.
Please help!!!