Pan lubing-what do you do next ?

Boolit Bub Join DateApr 2012LocationVictoria, AuPosts30

Yup, am a noob, so new, I get nose bleed reading some of the 'rarified' posts
SO, I made up a batch of pan lube to use with RCBS 145 SIL 0.285 , Lee 130 0.285 and Lee 170 0.309.

After gathering the good looking ones,gas checked and sized appropriately.
I made myself some lube with Beeswax, vaseline, Lanolin and a bit of olive oil.Added wax until the lube is tacky, slippery, slidy and seems to stick to the lube grooves well.Not crumbly.
Next, took a fired unsized shell, belled the mouth a bit and cut the CB out of the lube.
NOW- what do you guys do next?
let them cure a while?
How do you clean the rest of the lube off the bullet before seating? Or o I just let it be?
I used my fingers and a rag, more rag use after seating in the case.
TIA and thanks for your patience
PS-its going to be the Bens red, Zombie green and a plethora of colours after this batch is over.Thanks for the inspiration

The gas checked bullets I pan lube, I run them through the Lee sizing die to remove excess lube after I cut them out of the cake (seat checks, lube, size, load). I found some stainless steel tubing about the same ID as my bullets OD and reamed the interior to a few thousandths over bullet diameter. Tapered one end and left them about 6" long so they are easy to handle...

Boolit Bub Join DateApr 2012LocationVictoria, AuPosts30

So you run them thru the Lee push sizer again to remove excess lube? What if I still find some smears of lube on the projectile after the 2nd run run through the sizer ( first run is to size and seat gas check)
Cutting them out of the lube using a mbelled mouth case DOES leave a bit of smear on the boolit.Is it ok to have this, load and use or ...
TIA

I don't size first. Pluck them out of the lube with a little pair of pliers, I use some little wire strippers, then size them all. That gets most of the lube off. Load them up, then wipe off the nose if you want. You can dowhatever to the base, I don't clean them but some people do.

The bullets will pull out of the lube easiest before it is fully cool.

just wipe off the excess lube.

it's all an educated guess,,,, till the trigger is pulled.

the more i find out about shootin boolits, the more it contradicts everything i ever learned about shooting jaxketed.

Boolit Bub Join DateApr 2012LocationVictoria, AuPosts30

Thank you All,
I just did the 2nd run thru the resizer.Beginning to look like the lubed boolits I see here.Yup,I shall wipe the excess off the nose
Cheers

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