Wadcutters the easy way.

Ben

Ben

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Cast with a Lee 6 cavity mould.
Lee 38 / 357 , 148 gr. , T/L wadcutter design .
Run through a Lee " Push thru " sizer to insure that each wadcutter is
uniformly sized to .3575 " .
Rolled in Ben's Liquid Lube.
All of the wadcutters are then ( gently ) poured out
onto 1/4" mesh screen with a small fan blowing on them.
The bullets are dry and ready to load in 1 hour.
Won't get much simpler than this.

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CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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I dont know why... But TL bullets dont shoot well For Me.

I juat swapped my 401-175 TL for a TC and as if magic. I have a shooter again.

CW
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Mine are the opposite, TL bullets tend to shoot better both if powder coated or coated with BLL.
 
fiver

fiver

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I've gone both ways, some do some don't.
the more square swc and wad cutter types seem to do fine.
I guess they have more than enough bore contact to do the job.
 
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Dale53

Active Member
My brother copied Ben's drying rack for me. Ben is right on point. This works, and the combination of the drying rack and "Ben's Liquid Lube" is an excellent combination!

Thank you, Ben, again!:)
Dale53
 
Matt

Matt

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I follow that method without running them through a sizer, one coat Ben’s tumble lube ( what I call BLT Ben’s Lube, Tumble) and I also use BLR (Ben’s Lube-Red). I have two Lee six cavities for this bullet and you can really produce bullets. Both cast well and if heated in the hot plate there are no culls from beginning to end. With two twenty pound pots you can whip out 2,000+ bullets in a few hours. A light tumble with BLT then under the fan (I use five cookie sheets lined with wax paper) I’ll have to make some screened boxes, I wait for the lube to dry over night. I then load my years supply of .38 Special wadcutters with the unsized bullets. The bullets are all .358” + a little from my bulket trap scrap. They chamber freely in all my .38 and.357 revolvers and shoot pretty well when loaded without concern for where the sprue end is in mixed brass. I taper crimp lightly, I believe it’s the best way to get accuracy with .38 Special wadcutters at velocities of 700-750 FPS or less I think non gas check tumble lube designs work best with softer alloys and and velocities at or under 1000 FPS. The one exception to this is the Lee .40 175gr TC TL. I shoot this at about 1200 FPS in my Win M92 with outstanding accuracy and no leading and it feeds from the magazine with the bullet crimped lightly
in the top TL groove. I started this to give affirmation to Ben showing the way to get a lot of quality bullets quickly and make accurate ammunition for revolver practice to 50 yards are so.
Then I got stuck on blab. Pardon me.
 
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John

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I was recently given 1000 old wadcutters from a retired LEO that thought he might cast someday. Now headed for the retirement acres he never did. They seem to be an old Saeco mold with a center lube and a crimp groove on either end. Not trusting 40 year old lube I rolled them in an Bens and let them dry before loading. At BHN 18 they need all the lube they can get.
 
Matt

Matt

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Good plan, especially if the old lube is hard. Nothing worse than a hard lube and hard alloy with wadcutters, almost guarantees leading and inaccuracy. At 18 bhn I’d be tempted to re-melt them and use them for a higher pressure application. You might find after testing them you’ll do just that. It’s part of the beauty of casting lead alloys is that you can “re-purpose “ it so easily.
 
Matt

Matt

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John,
The year I retired I was given about 2,500 commercially cast wadcutters. I don’t remember the caster’s name. They were double ended with a single lube groove with a very hard blue lubricant. The bullet box said they were “hard cast” and they were. I loaded 2 or 3 hundred of them and immediately cursed myself because they leaded terribly and were not accurate in my old S & W PPC
revolver. The rest of them became a bunch of 308334 and 311284 bullets that shot wonderfully
in .30/06 and .308. Had to re-melt outside, the lube was nasty and wasn’t even good flux. Good luck
 
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