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VA Shooter
10-18-2011, 08:30 AM
Can I size these in a lyman 4500 sizer
44man
10-18-2011, 08:35 AM
Sure, and they work fine with a good lube. Just don't size so much you wipe out GG's.
hornady
10-18-2011, 08:37 AM
I don’t see why not, you will still need to tumble lube them. I don’t think you could get them to hold enough lube from your 4500. But this is an opinion never tried, someone else may know .
44man
10-18-2011, 08:42 AM
I don’t see why not, you will still need to tumble lube them. I don’t think you could get them to hold enough lube from your 4500. But this is an opinion never tried, someone else may know .
I didn't think of lube hole alignment!
I lube all my boolits by hand with Felix and use Lee dies to remove excess lube.
imashooter2
10-18-2011, 09:19 AM
I've seen pictures of micro band boolits conventionally lubed, so clearly it works.
DLCTEX
10-18-2011, 09:28 AM
I do it all the time, no problems.
Floydster
10-18-2011, 11:10 AM
Works fine for me lubing on my Lyman 45:)
I've read that it works fine, if you don't size the boolit enough to remove he grooves. I tried sizing some .433" T/L groove boolits to .429" - .430" and there wasn't much left as far as lube grooves...
Larry Gibson
10-18-2011, 12:47 PM
I've read that it works fine, if you don't size the boolit enough to remove he grooves. I tried sizing some .433" T/L groove boolits to .429" - .430" and there wasn't much left as far as lube grooves...
If that is a problem then size and lube the TL bullets with an H dies that is the "as cast" or slightly smaller diameter. Then push size the lubed bullets through a Lee sizer of the size wanted. The lube in the grooves compresses very littel and maintains the lube grooves. I regularly size .314 - .315 TL bullets in my 450 with a .314 H dies. I then can size them down to .309 if necessary. I normally don't size TL bullets prelubed more than .003 so I size to .311 and then to .309. I also regularly do the same with .38 TL bullets sizing them from .362 to .360 or .358 and .44 TL bullets sizing them down from .433 to .429.
Larry Gibson
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