How to remove pan lubed bullets cleanly

[Jacksgrampa]

294181.50 cal. wadcutter punch for for over powder wad or card.

[mehavey]

- Drill out the primer pocket of any fired/un-sized case,
- Insert a "Common" (or masonry) (https://www.thespruce.com/nail-sizes-and-types-1824836) nail into the case/out through the drilled-out pocket....
- Use open end like cookie cutter over the bullet/through hardened lube/down to bottom of pan...
- Push bullet out of case using the nail head...

- Repeat

[Minerat]

Check this out.

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?128960-Kake-Cutter-Photos

[mdi]

I have made cookie cutters out of spent cartridges and SS and brass tubing (reamed ID for close fit). A wooden dowel for a punchout tool. I have never had a lube that would allow punching bullets out of a lube cake by hand cleanly, all too soft...

[Green Frog]

The only lube I’ve ever used for pan lubing is Emmert’s and it’s just hard enough to take out of the pan in a cake then push the bullets through base first by hand. There’s a fine line between too soft and sticky and so hard it hurts my thumb.

Froggie

[megasupermagnum]

I don't see how a .50 caliber punch could remove anything other than a .500" bullet. I've tried as other said to use a fired case as a cutter. I had mediocre results. You have to be so careful or else you have lead off the bullet. I prefer to do as Green Frog does and push the bullets out. If that doesn't work, I abandon pan lubing, and dip lube them.

[GregLaROCHE]

- Drill out the primer pocket of any fired/un-sized case,
- Insert a "Common" (or masonry) (https://www.thespruce.com/nail-sizes-and-types-1824836) nail into the case/out through the drilled-out pocket....
- Use open end like cookie cutter over the bullet/through hardened lube/down to bottom of pan...
- Push bullet out of case using the nail head...

- Repeat
Mod 1. Stick a cork from a wine bottle on the pointed end of the nail to make it easier to push out the boolit.

[JSnover]

The only lube I’ve ever used for pan lubing is Emmert’s and it’s just hard enough to take out of the pan in a cake then push the bullets through base first by hand. There’s a fine line between too soft and sticky and so hard it hurts my thumb.

Froggie


That!
If I'm in a hurry or don't let it cool enough I'll use the cutter but in my case, that always gets a little messy. Once the cake is nice and firm at room temp I lay the cake face-up on an old towel and break them loose by pushing each nose down, after that they can be removed in either direction. I don't put the cake in the fridge because it's too easy to crack it.

[Outpost75]

I arrange bullets nose-up in a 9 inch square cake pan, first putting them nose-down in .45 cartridge box inserts, inverting the pan, then holding the two box inserts with 100 bullets GENTLY turning the pan right side up. Remove the cartridge box spacers to leave evenly-spaced, nose-up bullets. Pour hot, melted lube over the bullets up to their crimp groove and then let rest at room temperature until half-hard. Move pan to refrigerator to harden fully overnight. Remove pan from frig and GENTLY invert pan over a towel so that the chilled, shrunken lube cake releases freely of it's own weight from the pan. Let the cake rest to attain room temperature and then push bullets out with thumb pressure only against their noses.

Replace emptied lube cake back into pan, drop more bullets base down into the holes. Warm oven at 225 degrees to let lube melt and flow to lube next batch. Let slow cool in oven overnight to half-hard before moving to refrigerator to chill. Every third batch need to top off with more melted lube.

I use 50-50 olive oil - beeswax in .44-40, .45 Colt, etc.