Lots of great help for me here gentlemen-thanks for the continuing discussion !!!!! the lube cookie mold idea sounds like the thing to do----i'll work on that mold next
Bob---the lathe guy's finished the neck sizing die----all polished up ready to use ---- hope to get loading and testing tomorrow----------the expander should open an anealed cast to 0.4505--same as the patched bullet----the cases are "partially sized" leaving the head section and say 20% of the case adjacent to the head untouched-----hope everything will center up just fine.
If this new case prep process works (closes the group to say 2 or 3 minutes) i'll load enough to shoot next weeks sillywet match
Any thoughts on the bigger pieces of "confetti"----normal---good---disastrous ??????
Again thanks for continuing the thread and happy 4th
Dave