True up your cast and paper patched bullets

[Eric Johanen]

Lately I've switched to the Lee "push thru" size dies to true up my cast bullets. I have a old Lyman Postell mold that drops nice bullets but just a whisker out of round. Dropped from the mold they run .459 with 20/1 alloy. The Lee sizer at .459 barely touches the bullets and brings them round. I have also been using them in the appropriate size to even up the paper on my patched bullets. Using Esleeck .002 paper there is some variation from sheet to sheet and a run through a .450 die evens up the diameter (.4505) just enough to uniform each bullet. My bullets cast from a BACO 625 grain "Creedmoor" mold at 512 diameter show a very slight variation on the front driving band from batch to batch making some bullets a bit hard to seat fully in the chamber so I have been running them through a .512 die and they true up perfectly making each one chamber the same. Bullets cast from BACO" Money Bullets" and "Creedmoor" cast round and true diameters and they are pan lubed and loaded as cast. Not really sure if a less than a thousands variation makes that much of a difference but I feel better loading and shooting them as uniform as possible. (All my bullets are sorted and shot by weight). So for some bullets that can use a bit of attention, the Lee dies really work great. I've added these tools to my bench and am pleased with how they work.