Lubrisizer question

[Encoreman]

I need to pick a brain or two about top punches for my 450 lyman. I am using Lee moulds and they don't have the top punches listed as do the lyman, and rcbs. How do you choose the top punches to match the bullet? I am casting a .358 158 gr FN out of a Lee mould. Thanks Mac

 

[GP100man]

you need the lyman 495 top punch & it`ll work onabout anything flat.
compare your lee boolit to lyman 358665.

GP100man

 

[NuJudge]

If you know of a Lyman bullet with a similar nose profile, refer to this:
http://www.castpics.net/

You can find pictures of just about every Lyman bullet ever made here:
http://www.three-peaks.net/bullet_molds.htm

 

[rcmodel]

+1

Just find a Lyman or RCBS bullet with the same, or as close as possible to the same shape as the lee, and use that top punch #.

(RCBS & Lyman top punches & dies are interchangable.)

rc

 

[Encoreman]

Thanks guys I thought the 495 looked correct, trying not to order 1 I didn't need. Mac

 

[lordgroom]

nujudge- thanks for the second link.