Over the last couple weeks I bought a Lyman 45 and also a .452 H&I die on the For Sale Forum here and I'm finally getting around to setting it up.
This is my first foray into Lube Sizers, up to now I've been Pan Lubing and Lee Push through Sizing. I'll apologize if this is so obvious that only a total newbie could not know it, because I am.
Last night I printed out the instructions and set everything up and started getting it adjusted. Thus far I've just been playing with it to watch the parts move and see how things went. The press still has some old Lyman Black Gold lube in it so I used it, figured the black color would make things easy to spot and I could see if I was getting the crimp groove or not filling the lube grooves, etc.
After sizing about 10 bullets I had a great big gob of black lube hanging out the bottom of the die. Safe to say there was more lube in the gob than I'd put in the boolits up to that point.
The die has allot of holes in it, two sets of 4 and then another two sets of three opposing the set of four. Picture describes it better.
I've seen H&I dies with as few as one so now I'm wondering. Should the holes in the die correspond somewhat to the number of lube grooves in my boolits? If thats the case, this die has got allot more places for the lube to go than just the lube grooves I think.
I was using Lee 452-255-RF bullets to experiment with, they've got two lube grooves. I'll also be using the lube sizer with the Mihec 270-SAA clone which has one lube groove.
Can / Should I plug holes on this dies with some soft lead or should I get a another with just one or two holes in it?