Short story long:
I've been browsing the lube Sub-Forum threads and haven't run across that one yet, but I've tried a bunch of ways and that zip-lock bag just takes the cake whether I'm using 45-45-10 or BLL. Like most here, I started using straight LEE Liquid Alox a long time ago and experienced all the same issues. I wouldn't give up on it though because for a long time, I bought commercial cast for my 45 ACP needs and used LEE's goop on them because the hard lube that came on them was pretty, but worthless.
Using a quart-sized, heavy-duty zip-lock bag, I don't count the bullets, I just make sure I don't fill it over half full with bullets. For half a quart of anything from 30 cal to 44 cal, four quarter-inch diameter drops of 45-45-10 or BLL is enough. I zip the bag up (don't squeeze the air out) and kneed the bag from the bottom, rolling it back and forth between my hands and poking my fingers up into the mass and rolling the whole thing occasionally to get the bullets out of the corners. It's more like a massage than tumbling. I do that until all bullets are glistening - no set time, but it's never for very long. I think a minute at most. I dump them out onto waxed paper, spread them around and walk away.
A bag will last almost indefinitely. The one I am using for BLL is several years old. The one I use for 45-45-10 is only a little over a year old. I heat my bullets AND lube for 45-45-10. I left a batch of bullets on the wood stove too long once and poured them into the bag, drizzled lube, zipped up and proceeded to kneed when I heard bullets falling onto the bench. I had hot bullets, hot lube and molten plastic running between my fingers. Peeling the plastic off my fingers was less painful than peeling it off all the individual bullets. Lesson learned - WARM the bullets, don't "heat" them. I don't wear gloves because if they're too hot to hold in bare hands, they'll melt the bag.
To collect up dried bullets and deposit them into one of my fancy bullet boxes (small plastic coffee cans), I use a rectangle cut out from a flimsy plastic three-ring binder as a bullet scoop. Holding onto one end bends/cups the sheet of plastic to add rigidity, and the scoop end presses flat against the waxed paper. Scoops 'em right up and the scoop end conforms to the opening of the coffee can so I can gently slide the bullets into the can without damaging plain bases. I also made a spent primer diverter out of this same material for my original turret press - to divert them from going everywhere versus going into the spent primer reservoir.
Those cheap folders/binders come in a lot of colors, one of which happens to be a shade of red which is very close to "LEE Red." Coincidentally, the small plastic coffee cans I beg off others also match the general red motif of the bench.
