Author Topic: Upside down boolit sizing and gas checks.  (Read 1482 times)

Offline Drydock

  • MA1 USN ret. GAF #19, Colonel, Chief of Staff. BC, CC, SoM. SASS 1248 Life
  • American Plainsmen Society
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 4829
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 18
Upside down boolit sizing and gas checks.
« on: April 14, 2019, 12:21:02 PM »
I saw this over at CastBoolits and had to try it.  IT WORKS!

I know a number of us use Lee bullet sizers.  I do, love them, but putting on the gas checks is a fiddly buisness.  I had just cast a bunch of 7mm Mauser bullets for a local match, and was not looking forward to gas checking them.  But saw something about upside down sizers on the CastBoolit forum, dug out my Lee Hand Press, and mounted it upside down between two chunks of tomato stake in my bench vise.  Screwed in the sizing die, then simply dropped in the bullet, and casually set the check on it.  Run down the handle, repeat with the next.  The bullets drop into a dish beneath. 

This is SO much easier and faster than doing it conventionally, and the Lee hand Press is a natural for this sort of thing.

FWIW I dump the new cast boolits in a butter tub, spray with Ballistol, size them, then tumble lube them.
Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Offline Professor Marvel

  • purveyor of useless items to the gentry
  • Deputy Marshal
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3077
  • learn from the past, or be doomed to repeat it
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 1103
Re: Upside down boolit sizing and gas checks.
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2019, 06:58:35 PM »
Sounds fast and easy.
have you ever tried Johnstons Paste Wax instead of tumble lube?

yhs
prof mvl
Your Humble Servant
~~~~~Professor Algernon Horatio Ubiquitous Marvel The First~~~~~~
President, CEO, Chairman,  and Chief Bottle Washer of


Professor Marvel's
Traveling Apothecary
and
Fortune Telling Emporium


Acclaimed By The Crowned Heads of Europe
Purveyor of Patent Remedies, Snake Oil, Powder, Percussion Caps, Cleaning Supplies, Dry Goods,
and
Picture Postcards

Offering Unwanted Advice for All Occasions
and
Providing Useless Items to the Gentry
Since 1822
[
Available by Appointment for Lectures on Any Topic


Offline Drydock

  • MA1 USN ret. GAF #19, Colonel, Chief of Staff. BC, CC, SoM. SASS 1248 Life
  • American Plainsmen Society
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 4829
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 18
Re: Upside down boolit sizing and gas checks.
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2019, 08:13:44 PM »
No, been using LLA for decades now.
Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Advertising

  • Guest
Re: Upside down boolit sizing and gas checks.
« Reply #3 on: Today at 02:21:43 AM »

 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk

© 1995 - 2023 CAScity.com