Lee Sizer Kits: Sizing Powder Coated Cast Bullets And Installing Gas Checks

well sugars done reloaders we've got here powder-coated ly three five eight one five eight tumble Lube semi wad-cutters cast solid six cavity mold and this is what they look like they've got some speckles in there because we try to do an effect with vermilion but basically that's kind of like a battleship gray it's made by mixing the pastel blue with a periwinkle grade now these bolts are cast hard but notice what I did there I took a construction hammer and I pounded that bullet flat but then at the end I tried to hit it off-center to see if I could shatter and break off a piece of that bullet and you see even though is cast hard it won't dent a fingernail even though it's cast hard it doesn't shatter so we used to always think that a hard cast bullet say over bhn 20 would shatter if it hit bone well I'm not sure that anymore look at that that not only did not shatter but it held together perfectly as you see there you see how the hammer actually tried to break that piece off but it wouldn't break off very tough so can our hard cast bolts be tough and the answer is yeah these bullets need to be sized to three 5/8 inch and that's why we're using our Lee sizer kit there's the post there is the die and there's a receptacle we already started doing a few of them so you see it's three five eight let's show you how that goes you've seen this before it basically goes pretty fast you put the bullet on the little post there and then you just go ahead and run it through the constriction is early in the die and the little post pushes the bullet through the constriction and then it goes into a free bore area but just get a handful of bullets and just put them in one at a time and just run through as you see now if you don't like the way this is sizing you can go ahead and spray some case Lube into the bullets and that makes it go a little bit easier and in a little while we'll take the top off and you can see the bullets in there that they don't get the powder coating sheared off by being run through to die without any lubrication so let's go ahead and show you that there you see the size bullets coming through into the receptacle they look pretty good and that vermilion did get in there but didn't do a real good job with the speckling the Vermillion doesn't do that very well so it's not a good powder to add for speckling effects now if you start seeing a little dryness on the rim that's a good time to go ahead and add a little bit of Lube to your ram just let it run down there and just run that through and right here a little bit little bit of Lube right here like so then why hearing squeaking and we just keep going now you see those are feeding through real nice now occasionally you'll get a little powder coat finish it's sitting on the parchment paper or the nonstick foil and you get a little bit of paint a little bit of powder coat that goes off and then when you run it through you'll get these little flakes of powder coat that fall down here onto the press that's what that is it's not any sheering off of powder coat from the sides of the bullet just those little fins from the base that are being kind of cut off so that little three in one oil really helps the press it's always good idea to have some three and one oil around in case you want to lube your press okay you've seen enough of that soap and just go ahead and run the recipe so you know really if you get some range scrap for free or wheel wastes from your tire place your tire mounting company you get the wheel waste for free and then you get a lee mole for $20 and then a size kit for like twenty was it twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six something like that and your regular reloading press works very well powder coating is easy get some Harbor Freight powder coat five dollars for a pound and then you get a toaster oven from Walmart for twenty dollars or if you can find one use we're in some kind of garage sale you're in business for like five dollars for a toaster oven you can be making bullets without a whole lot of trouble in not a whole lot of expense and these cast bullets shoot everywhere as good as as the store-bought bullets it doesn't take long so your time can be done like after work you take care of your family obligations and then maybe a hour two of your own time at the end of the day and it's a good way to shoot now if I didn't shoot a lot I've got enough bullets here for you know like two or three months to shoot a lot then you got enough bullets to last for a weekend and if your family especially of your family shoots also plus you don't even have to powder coat you can do a 45 45 10 like country boy prepper does for his bullets for his Cowboy Action Shooting you can lube a lot of bullets real fast with a 45 45 10 system and these can actually be shot without even sizing them because they're tumble Lube design are designed to be shot without sizing so you don't even need a sizer but I'm sizing them because by time I Perico these are a little bigger than I then I want to see so that's why I'm size ium and the amazing thing is powder coating goes through that sizing procedure and the powder coat still there as you saw the toughness of the flattening that we do so there you see all of them are done that whole tray didn't take that long to do I was saved about 20 minutes at the outside let's go ahead and take those and just dump them into the container you see the shavings from the fins of powder coat on the bases that I was telling you about those are just brush off the press but now let's just go ahead and show you the bullets as they came out of the container there they are and they look pretty good now installing gas checks with the Lee sizer is a little bit more time-consuming what you have here is a powder coated four to nine to one 5cm bullet from Lyman and powder coated with mirror red Eastwood so you take one of these and it's a gas check design so you go ahead and have your gas checks with a cup up and all you do is pick up a gas check with a bullet and set it on the pedestal and guide it in you don't have to worry about getting that gas check on to the base of the bullet just get it lined up because when you do the stroke like this it will go ahead and seat that gas check for you so you see that's the secret you just pick it up so that is lined up and then guide it in so after a while it doesn't take that long but it's longer but it does take more time than if you were doing bullets that didn't require the gas check so once again there you see the bullets sitting kind of lined up with the gas and then running in like so and don't know if you can see that but they're just perfect we'll just show you so - you see those gas checks are seated nicely nice and square as you can see I like the way these came out they're just beautiful well some casters ask me why I don't make my own gas checks out of aluminum and my answer is that the copper ones worth just fine for me and I don't need to mess around with success we just go ahead and keep on sizing and installing these gas checks should have a whole cup full of those things pretty quick

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Keywords: Lee Bullet Sizer Kits, Sizing cast bullets, Sizing powder coated cast bullets, Installing gas checks

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Length: 12min 7sec (727 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 11 2017