mugsie
08-04-2009, 07:59 AM
I had cast and sized some Lee 429-240-2R bullets. I sized them in my Lyman Lubisizer at .429 and shot them over 8.5g of Unique. A nice soft load and relatively accurate. I did find, ever so slightly, some leading in the barrel. I forgot to say I lubed with my concoction of Felix lube and JPW 75 / 25. Seeing the slight traces, and knowing this lube in my other guns had zero leading, I thought I would size the bullets to .430. This gun, a Ruger Red Hawk always exhibited some very slight leading no matter what was shot in it.
I purchased from Graff a Lyman sizing die of .430 dia. Of course they didn't have one, so upon speaking to them again after being on back order for weeks, the fellow offered to send me the RCBS die - he said "they're interchangable". Lyman has two sets of holes in the die, RCBS has one set. Lyman's holes are smaller, RCBS larger. They of course both fit into the lubisizer. So last night I placed the die in the lubisizer, placed a bullet on it and squished it down. On the up stroke it was so convenient that it rode up and out on a column of lube!:groner:
I adjusted upwards - no good. I adjusted downwards - no good. Now granted, the Lee bullet had very very wimpy lube groves - not the manly groves found in the lyman styles, but I was able to successfully lube them at .429 using the Lyman die.
After numerous attempts, I finally managed to produce 50 lubed bullets with a lot of frustration and hard work. So - does anyone have any suggestions as to how to set the lubrisizer up with the RCBS dies? Do they take any more special TLC or is this just going to be a fact of life. I don't want to tumble lube so that's out of the question. Any ideas?
I purchased from Graff a Lyman sizing die of .430 dia. Of course they didn't have one, so upon speaking to them again after being on back order for weeks, the fellow offered to send me the RCBS die - he said "they're interchangable". Lyman has two sets of holes in the die, RCBS has one set. Lyman's holes are smaller, RCBS larger. They of course both fit into the lubisizer. So last night I placed the die in the lubisizer, placed a bullet on it and squished it down. On the up stroke it was so convenient that it rode up and out on a column of lube!:groner:
I adjusted upwards - no good. I adjusted downwards - no good. Now granted, the Lee bullet had very very wimpy lube groves - not the manly groves found in the lyman styles, but I was able to successfully lube them at .429 using the Lyman die.
After numerous attempts, I finally managed to produce 50 lubed bullets with a lot of frustration and hard work. So - does anyone have any suggestions as to how to set the lubrisizer up with the RCBS dies? Do they take any more special TLC or is this just going to be a fact of life. I don't want to tumble lube so that's out of the question. Any ideas?