How to pick just one bullet

[fiver]

just raise and lower the handle, if you get a mess lower the temp a bit.
chunk,,,chunk,chunk,chunk.

 

[462]

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[fiver]

the star guys will get it.

 

[L Ross]

It is not about the shooting, but the mess of lube and sizing them!

Oh, I get it. I use a Star, size nose first if I want to fill the grease groove. Mostly I just tumble them in BLL and shoot them as cast.

 

[358156 hp]

I kept my Star when powder coating took over. The Star sizes bullets perfectly well without the lube pressurized and I already own most of the sizing dies I need.

 

[popper]

Bevel base rifle bullets? Not BB but with most of the GC shank removed. Pushed to 2150 fps in BO carbine, accurately. Problem with true BB is culling, can't tell the good from bad.
edit: logic for the base - assume you can keep the bullet 'square' when shot, a 'poor' bevel base exits the crown crooked. GC shank is short so doesn't rivet but leaves the crown straight aka pressure wave is equal all around. When culling you can easily see any base imperfections and fill out is more consistent. I haven't tried this with pistol molds but should work the same. After experiments with dinged 40sw bases, yup, base makes a big difference.

 

[Winelover]

No bevel base mould, here. Only time I used BB they were commercial cast, when I was working and had no time to cast pistol bullets. Also had only the RCBS Lam sizer, back then, so well aware of the lube issues. Since then, I picked up a Star but still don't want bevel bases. Closest thing would be culled GC bullets that I would run nose first though the Star, without the check and use them for close range revolver/pistol practice.

 

[TXTad]

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Thank you for posting these! I'm about to start working on some .38/44 loads for my postwar Outdoorsman. I'm only looking to reach about 1,150 with a 158 gr SWC. I bet that 6.5gr of Unique under a 173 is firmly into .357 pressures.