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Nov 22nd, 2025 at 4:37pm
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Any one with experience?
  
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I has one for several months but sold it.  They are great for bullets with non-tapered driving bands but not so great with tapered driving bands.

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I'm not sure what you are asking? If you are asking whether they are good, most of us that have one consider them to be about the fastest and easiest sizer ever made. That's why you see them selling for $200++ on most websites. I have 3 that mount on an inline fabrication stand. I use one exclusively for handgun calibers with a specific lubricant for them. I use another one for larger black powder calibers mostly .45 with SPG type lube and the last for smaller black and smokeless caliber with my own lube. Even with tapered bullets if you don' get too aggressive with the lube pressure its still easier than pan lubing. The biggest problem with them is getting the sizing dies. Ebay always have a few dies listed for sky high prices as well as too high of prices for the presses.
  
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Reply #3 - yesterday at 8:43am
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I have one that I just got. I've heard very good things about them but have little (none) experience with lube/sizers. In the past I loaded 'as cast' but have learned (the hard way?) that might not be the best method for consistent results, so I'm looking for 'experienced operators' to cast some light in my direction Smiley
I'm currently loading for the .38-55 using a 0.3825 sizer for use in a Ballard (with BP) and a Stevens 44 1/2 for use with smokeless. Both have Shavers tang sight and PH front aperture sight. I'm not collecting them for show I use them for shooting. I've checked the bore and that size die should be 'okay' (probably not ideal) with both barrels. The Ballard is original the Stevens had a liner inserted by Bobby Hoyt.
Thanks for any advise. 
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I use the 3 Redding molds for 38-55 loads. All 3 are tapered bullets that I size depending on the actual size of the bore. The first and best way to determine what bullet diameter you want for each gun is to slug the bore, which is very easy by just pushing and oversized pure lead slug down the bore or by firing an oversize pure lead bullet with a squib load(ie primer+ a small amount of fast burning pistol powder) so that the bullet gets stuck in the bore and then pushing it back out with a wood dowel.  i then size the cast bullet base about .002" larger than the actual bore diameter bullet. I have gotten awesome accuracy with this method and the Redding tapered bullets.
  
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In the 1970's I worked in a gunshop that carried Star Lubersizers. The ones we had were for 38 Special or 45 Auto. They were basically for pistol bullets that matched the Star progressive loaders. 
  
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Reply #6 - yesterday at 3:20pm
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Magma Engineering took over the Star Lubrisizer possibly two decades ago. There has been on-again and off-again support. They announced on their website they were closing.   

There is a Star Lubrisizer Facebook group. That may be your best source of direct contact.  

I have one with dies for .38, .44, and .45 pistol plus .310 and .311 dies for push-through sizing rifle bullets.  

The cautionary thought is the setup time. You need to process a large number of bullets to justify the setup time. Having said that, you can process a large number of bullets with the Star.   
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Reply #7 - yesterday at 5:31pm
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Okay. Got it set up and ran about 50 bullets through it in no time. Only issue was remembering to screw the lube feed screw down after a certain number of bullets (I only have the manual feed not the compressed air feed). But WOW that thing is FAST (much faster than pan lubing and sized to boot!)

Thanks to all who commented. AFA Facebook goes, that is a good suggestion except I don't do facebook  Roll Eyes
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