Sizing

[cheese1566]

Read the 31+ page sticky in tumble coating with air soft bb's.

Do you size them after baking?

i plan trying these for 9mm and 40SW. Both are Lee TC style boolits.

[Jupiter7]

I do with lee push thru sizers after PC.

[xacex]

The lee maybe not, but I do size my mihec 359 down to 357 for 9mm. If it chambers go for it.

[bangerjim]

I size after casting AND after PC'ing to catch any out-layers.....for best accuracy.


Nice thing: I cast a 9mm .356 NLG slug and size it 356, PC, and size for 356 and shoot it in my 9's.
Same mold: cast 9mm 356, PC, size 358 and shoot them in all my 38/357's.


Use Lee sizing dies for a cal's. NO lube used for sizing.


Sweet.

[cheese1566]

Can I use my Star?
I have dies already...just won't use the lube.

do I need to lubricate them a little to make them pass through the size die easily?

[xacex]

Can I use my Star?
I have dies already...just won't use the lube.

do I need to lubricate them a little to make them pass through the size die easily?
Should work fine. They are slick as is.

[DaveSpud]

I ALWAYS size after coating. Sizing seems to make coated bullets more accurate. Makes sense--they're more uniform after sizing.

[bangerjim]

No lube is necessary. PC is slick as said. We have never proven whether grease lubes degrade PC down in the case when loaded. It is just not needed as far as I and many others are concerned.

I have read some use soap, but that adds ANOTHER step in the process.....cleaning off the soap with water and drying the boolits! Just try it, you will see for your self that NO lube of any kind is ever needed.

When you size after coating, the drive bands are slick and smooth as glass!

[gunoil]

hitech or pc , l size and seat pb gc's @ one time, slick as glass. Same with coated 38sp and copper hornaday gc's. All with arbor.

I have done some with my star sizer. A old San Diego original die would not seat pb gc's because of rim at top. Eric's dies would seat pb gc's.

[Dragonheart]

I size after coating.

[bstone5]

If I have a lot of bullets to size I use the star with the lube leaver disconnected.
For a few I use the Lee Die push thru die.

[Budzilla 19]

Size after final coating every time for me, except for plinking rounds in 38. Size and BLL then load and fire.

[sdcitizen]

I have taken to sizing most everything after baking, if you use a factory crimp die and it sizes them in the case, occasionally on the way out of the die the boolit will pull out of the case a bit, no matter how hard the crimp.

[Maximumbob54]

I use Lee push through dies and only size after coating.

[AFK]

I size after they cool from casting, spray on PC, then size again when cooled.

[jwber]

I size just once after casting. I started using just a lil bit of spray case lube on them (RCBS Case Slick).

I'm going down 5-6 thousands so it makes it easier and smoother.

[Walter Laich]

another vote for pc then sizing. Use Lee push-through