Who uses siZers

[pearcetopher]

Hi guys,

I have been casting for a good year now and Ive noticed every once in a while I will have an extreme oversized bullet or undersized bullet that ruins my day

Ive thought about using sizers but generally my stuff works ok as cast.

Howmany people here size?

[Love Life]

A bunch.

[MT Gianni]

Every caster I know.

[btroj]

I sure do, every bullet I shoot was sized.

[freebullet]

^^^ ditto. I like consistent accurate boolits.

[fredj338]

I started with the Lee hand/hammer sizer & pan lubing. Pita, so went to a Lyman, not a ton better. Then bought a Star, the only way to fly IMO. I like all my bullets the same size, especially using mixed brass. The Star/Magma is by far the fastest way to lube/size.

[Bzcraig]

More often than not

[mikeym1a]

Greetings! Welcome to the club. My first cast boolits were for my pistols. They were dropped from Lee molds of the micro-groove style, and tumble-lubed. The directions from Lee say they seldom need sizing. AND, from my limited experience with my pistols, that is correct, at least with my pistols. I know what the groove size is for my guns, and check them when dropped to make sure they are correct, and if so, I lube, load, and shoot. My rifles, well, that's another story. I've got bunches of sizers for the different guns. But long guns are a bunch different. There should be some "stickies" relating to this. I am learning to paper patch for my guns, and that requires 2 different sizers for each gun. Try and find the sticky, and read, read, read. It's interesting stuff. Hope this helps a bit. mikey

[MT Chambers]

You need to size and lube all at once, or you are going to spend way too much time and energy messing around, a Star machine is best followed by RCBS/Lyman...this is for folks that cast, reload, and shoot a lot.

[Walter Laich]

Add me to the sizers list. I use a Lyman for lead bullets and a Lee push through for powder coated ones.

[Down South]

I size every boolit that I cast.

[Vagabond55]

Add me to the list as well. Sized ever since casting way back when. Got a RCBS, a Lyman, a Saeco, and Lee push thru sizers. Don't think i ever shot a boolit that wasn't sized.

['74 sharps]

Gave up sizing when my 45-70's shot better @ 200 yds with unsized bullets. Have never sized pistol bullets.

[jrmartin1964]

There are two lubricator/sizers on my bench, and every boolit I cast is eventually put through one of them. I like my boolits round.

Jim

[dubber123]

I have 3 sizers, I size almost every boolit, unless I need a size larger than my biggest die. For those I will hand lube enough to try, and if they work better for me, the appropriate die will be ordered or made.

[Doc Highwall]

I size all my bullets and lube at the same time. There are a few people who have custom moulds made that will drop bullets at the size they need and pan lube or use a sizing die that is .001" larger so as not to size the bullet.

[gray wolf]

I size em all

[RobS]

Each one of mine pass through a sizer of some sort.

[buck1]

I will split from the pack a bit here. If I have a boolit more than 3 thou over sized for my gun I size it down to about 2 thou over sized. I have honed most of my sizer dies out to size very little if at all. My sizers are used more as a way to fill the groves with my lube. My favorite sizer is a rifled barrel. If I could find a way to fill my lube groves with my lube, faster and easier than a sizer. I would hardly ever use my sizers.
At one time I sized everything and slowly over time my results led me away from it.
For rifle bullets a push through is my favorite . I rub the boolit with lube and run it through. Its slower but shoots better for me............Buck

[Old Dawg]

Most of mine are for handguns. Regardless I don't size any of them. That is what barrels are for,