Lubrisizer handle extremely large diameter bullets?

[Naphtali]

This is a "curiosity" question, rather than one of need. I might be curious about the wrong question

Does any lubrisizer handle extremely large diameter bullets - .60- to .75-caliber? Or should I be asking whether sizing dies can be created to size this diameter range?

[Calamity Jake]

Lyman/RCBS size dies are .700-.705 in outside dia. so anything over .575 would be iffy as the
die wall thickness is to thin.
If only sizing .001-.004 then the machine should handle it just fine.

[stubshaft]

+1 - On what CJ said. I have cracked Lyman sizer dies of .500", they have thin sidewalls. You could have Buckshot make you a push through for larger than normal boolits.

[mooman76]

You could get away with it in a push threw sizer like Lee.

[GabbyM]

You could get away with it in a push threw sizer like Lee.

Load press dies are 7/8 x 14 thread pitch. That’s 7/8 or .875” on the O.D. of the threads.
I think you’d need the big press and whatever die size they take.

Most big boolits of that size are black powder muzzle loaders. We just pan lube 58 caliber minie balls and load them as cast. Or hand lube them. There are also some lube widgets for the big minie balls.

My muzzle loader is a 45 cap lock rifle. I can run my minies and maxi’s though my sizer to lube them.

[Rebel Dave]

I have benn using my RCBS LAM II for 35 years lubing .58 cal minnie bullets. I lube 3 different ones from .575 to .580. You can get the dies at S&S Firearms in NYC.

Rebel Dave aka Dave C.

[Johnch]

If you have a press with the 1 1/4-12 threaded inseart
Then I am sure someone could make you a push through sizer for you
Using the large Dia insert thread

Contact Buckshot

John

[Aaron]

See what John said above.

Buckshot made a .732 die for 12 ga slugs for me. Works great!

Aaron

[Naphtali]

See what John said above.

Buckshot made a .732 die for 12 ga slugs for me. Works great!

AaronAaron:

We are no longer in "curiosity" mode. My .72-caliber barrels are in-hand. I will be ordering a special conical mold with round nose-flat point, two or three lube grooves, and driving bands having a slight progression from sub bore diameter base band to sub groove diameter front band.

I own or have access to Magma-Star, RCBS, and Redding lubrisizers. All I will want a die to do is insert lubrication into grooves. No sizing of bullets will occur. Bullet alloy is 30 (lead): 1 (tin) - a soft material.

1. Which sizer for the job?

2. Who makes the die? Is Buckshot alone in the universe?

[PacMan]

You could order the largest size die one of those sizers uses and then have Buckshot or Lathsmith open it up.
Dwight

[cajun shooter]

With bullets of that size I would just pan lube and have Buckshot make me a Kate Kutter to cut them out of the lube. Very easy to do and fast with the correct tools.

[Doby45]

I could not agree more with the pan lubing recommendation. The size boolit your talking about you could dang near almost run through a Star minus the die, just pop it in the die hole and push it on through. LOL

[Doby45]

Actually I just went and measured my Star die hole and it is .750-.751 (used calipers) so if you are just below that size you could literally push the boolit through the sizer without a die and lube your lube grooves. But if you have multiple lube grooves you would have to lube each boolit more than once because there is only a single hole from the sizer to the die cavity. I would recommend the pan lubing for sure if you have more than one groove but if it is a single groove .749-.750 boolit I think I would try it through the sizer just for the sake of saying I did it. ;)

[deltaenterprizes]

There was a black powder lube kit that has a plastic ring that attached to a plastic tube of lube that you pushed the boolit through while applying pressure to the tube to put lube in the grooves but did not size the boolit. I can't remember what company made it.