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Excerpt from Fouing Shot 143 Jan/Feb 2000By David Southall Bonita Springs, FL My earliest experiments using cast bullets were fairly successful, using unsized bullets and bee’s wax/lard finger-applied as a lubricant.  The only real problem I encountered was the occasional large bullet that prevented chambering.  Some time later, I invested in a Lyman “push-through” die, which

Excerpt from Fouling Shot 143 Jan/Feb 2000.Glen E. FryxellRecently, there have been a handful of articles in The Cast Bullet addressing the concept of “lube pumping”.  I have learned a great deal from these articles, and I’d like to thank the authors for sharing their thinking with us.  In short, their conclusions have been that bullet lube is not just rubbed off of the bulle

Bullet moulds, regardless of the material they are made of, are all pieces of precision equipment that are subject to wear, abuse and the elements.  Handled incorrectly moulds are easily damaged and while certain components the likes of screws and sprue plates may be replaced any damage to the cavity in which the bullet is formed is not so easily corrected.  Likewise, light,