new way.

[fiver]

yep.
found a new way to bring the old Dillon 550 to a full on double clutching WTH?!! stop tonight.
setting a 452664 on top of a R-P 44 mag case and trying to run it into a size die will have you wondering what is going on for a bit.
especially since the boolit stays in the die, even after you pull the seating stem.

on a side note I been fighting with my browning 92 for a number of years trying to find something that would feed [length] and fit the throat too.
[I finally took up swaging to make things work properly] and had the answer right in the box [err bucket] the whole time.
the very first mold I bought when I got my master caster was their 44-240gr rnfp.
it seats short enough to the crimp groove and the nose is rounded just enough to snick into place just barely touching on the front diameter of the nose.
it probably won't win any cowboy matches but I have 5-6,000 of them already made, they must be from the early 90's or so.
complete with magma's nice red wax lube. [heresy I know]
I completely forgot I had them in the bucket and shoved back under the bench, I just happened to find an old box of them on one of the shelf's in the loading room.

I need to dig through more of my stuff from time to time, I found a brick of mag-tech large pistol primers shoved back on that same shelf. [18.99$]

 

[Rick]

I've found that cleaning out under the bench about once every 10 years yields some real treasures.

 

[shootnlead]

Now, that was a bucket full of slingshot fodder that you should have already given to a kid...long as he didn't live within range of your house windows and automobiles.

 

[Brad]

How hard is it to remove a bullet from a sizer? Carbide or steel?

I eliminated many of those gems a couple years ago. I went thru the loading room and anything I wasn't currently using or no longer had a need for got dumped in a bucket in the garage. Ended up with 268 pounds of clean, other than lube, alloy. Some of it is pretty hard from my past "needs".

What I end up finding is allen wrenches and stuff like that I seemed to be unable to find.

 

[fiver]

that one wasn't too bad.
I just used a punch and tapped it out with a hammer.
usually you can rap the side of the seat die and they fall out, but the 45 cal bullet was wedged in there.
I thought about laying on the handle for a second.
I'm glad I didn't.
now if you stick a bullet in a swage die.. that will get your blood pressure up high enough to need some aspirin and a cold compress.

anyway.
I found a big box of 429241's that can go out in the bucket with the rest of them.
a small stash of 44-40 boolits.
some plated bullets I think are for a 405 Winchester.
and a few other goody's that can get re-distributed elsewhere for the much needed shelf space.

 

[Cherokee]

This past summer I went thru my stash of cast bullets and reclaimed about 75-80# of good alloy. Been going thru my other "junk" and selling off things I will probably never got around to using in my remaining years.