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What is the desired diameter of a cast bullet?
For a cast bullet, you want its diameter to be a scant . 001 to . 002 inches larger than a jacketed bullet. Large enough to get a tight seal in the barrel but still able to chamber.
What does greasing a bullet do?
What does bullet lube do? I’ll bet most of you answered that bullet lube lubricates the passage of the bullet down a rifled bore, to eliminate galling of a soft metal as it traverses a hard metal cutting edge.
Why are lead bullets lubed?
Lubed bullets are lead alloy cast bullets that have a lube groove that is filled with a lubricant that keeps the bullet metal from getting smeared onto the barrel as the bullet is fired. Lube started out as bees wax and has now moved into high tech engineered materials. The lube is applied during the sizing process.
How do sizing dies work?
A resizing die is simply a carefully-shaped hunk of metal that is used to “press” the empty cartridge case back to standardized dimensions. The brass cartridge case is forced into the interior of the die with a reloading press and the internal shape of the resizing die presses the brass back into the proper dimensions.
What is Hi Tek bullet coating?
Hi-Tek Super Coat molecularly bonds to the bullet during the curing process, totally encapsulating the bullet. The coating prevents lead to bore contact and virtually eliminates lead fouling and the smoke normally associated with traditional wax type lubricants.
What is Revolver throat?
In a revolver, the throats are the areas in each cylinder chamber immediately ahead of the portion of the chamber where the brass case rests and into which the bullet projects. If the bullet is sized so that it is a gentle force fit in the throat, all else being equal your accuracy potential will increase greatly.
What size cast bullet is a 38 special?
Cast lead alloy and swaged lead bullets require a diameter about 0.001″ greater than normal jacketed bullet diameter to shoot accurately and prevent cylinder throat and bore leading in revolvers. With revolvers of modern manufacture, that should work out to 0.358″ diameter bullets for the . 38 Spl.
What does putting grease on bullets do?
I’ll bet most of you answered that bullet lube lubricates the passage of the bullet down a rifled bore, to eliminate galling of a soft metal as it traverses a hard metal cutting edge. Well, yeah, I suppose that’s true enough, but that’s not all it does, nor is it necessarily even the most important job that it does.
What is Hi-Tek 2 Extreme coating?
Hi-Tek 2-Extreme Coating from J&M Specialized Products P/L. THIS IS THE NEW POWDERED 2-EXTREME HEAT-CURED SUPERCOAT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE HAZMAT SHIPPING. No lead is exposed to the environment. Leading of the bore is dramatically reduced, as is lube smoke. Higher velocities can be attained with coated bullets.
What is HBN coating?
For years, many shooters have coated bullets with Moly (molybdenum disulfide) or Danzac (tungsten disulfide or “WS2″). The idea was to reduce friction between bullets and barrel.
What is throat angle?
As was stated earlier, the throat angle is determined by the triangle formed by the land height and the distance between the two diameters mentioned. In the example of the 6mm barrel, these diameters are . 237″ and. 243″.
What is the best way to lube and size bullets?
There are three basic techniques for lubing and sizing handgun bullets: tumble lubing, pan lubing and lube/sizing. The Lee Precision bullet sizer mounts on your reloading press. The ram goes in the shell plate holder and pushes bullets nose-first through the sizing die.
What is in the sizing and lubing kit?
The sizing portion of the kit is made up of a sizing die that swages the bullet down to the specified diameter, a ram to push the bullet through the sizing die, and a plastic case to catch the sized bullets. The lubing portion of the kit is a bottle of Lee’s liquid Alox lube.
How do you Lube a Lee Sizer?
After pan lubing, you can run your bullets through the Lee sizer just like you did with the Alox-coated bullets. The Lyman 4500 Lube Sizer swages the bullet to the correct diameter and fills the grooves with lube in one efficient operation. The final lubing and sizing technique is to use a mechanical lube/sizer like the Lyman 4500 Lube Sizer.
Do I need to size my Bullets?
The thing is, in most cases, you won’t need to size your bullets at all. When your bullets cool, they make shrink to exactly the size you need. In my experience with Lee molds, both the two cavity and six cavity, this is almost always the case.