Here is my question...but first forgive me for I am new and I have also been enjoying a few more beers than possibly needed...background first then the questions.
Firstly, maybe I am overthinking this all, but I am an aircraft mechanic, old school crew cheif, Air Force trained... C141 guy... anyways...
I started this all with a lee tumble lube mold... a few actually, but the one stirring the pot is the 9mm mold. Anyway my mold drops boolits anywhere from .358-.360 depending on the measurement location...no big deal, I can handle this regardless of Lee's claim to mold and go...my barrel slugged at .355 on the Taraus PT92AF anyway. So I decided to wait before loading and ordered the Lee sizer at .356. I just got through running roughly 300 boolits through the sizer and I was thinking...maybe the beer is driving me mad, but I was still thinking...
If the driving/lube bands are sized in a manner that is not in longitudinal alignment with the bullet ogive...which I must think that they are due to the fact there is an obvious degree of more material affected on one side than the other...would this misalignment, or coencentricity, induce wobble and inaccuracy as the bullet rotates across its longitudinal axis as it leaves the barrel?
I do not know if I am getting my idea across...but it seems like the Lee sizing die is centering the cast boolit on the bands and thereby sizing on the bands disregarding the gyroscopic mass of the boolit and the boolit's centerline on the ogive... is anyone following me? Or am I pissing up a pole facing into the wind?
Question #2: I lubed these boolits with Lee liquid alox. I have cast and lubed and loaded over 500 rds of this stuff for 45acp. The more I do it the more I dislike it. Honestly it seems crude and counterproductive. Just my noob opinion...I have been a reloader for over 20 years and just recently gotten into pistol loading and casting my own...but the entire tumble lube process seems messy to say the least...and maybe not so productive. Ok, the question: If I lube these tumble lube boolits and resize them in the lee sizing die and the resizing process does not remove the lube from the existing grooves is it truly necessary to lube them a second time? It seems to me there is a buildup or excess of lube on the ogive and nose sections of the boolit. Whereas the part of the boolit where it would seem most important-- there is not as much surface area for the lube to adhere to anyway as it might be wiped of during the seating process...and what isn't affected by that process is in the groves...which isnt affected by the sizing action anyway...
Trying to expalin my thoughts are making my head hurt. Maybe all of this is just an excersize in futility anyway. I need another beer.
Some help me out here.
As a good note however, the Lee TL bullets as cast for my 45 acp range from .452-.453 and seem to shoot quite well when loaded with 5gns of w231. My only complaint is the boolits do not drop uniform. But I can easily hit an 8 inch plate at 25 yds consistantly with them with that load and it seems to hit reasonably hard with no weapons malfunctions whatsoever with no excessive leading.
Opinions? Am I being stupid or over thinking?
Thanks,
Wes