Lubing Lyman Silhouette bullets?

Elric

Elric

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I have completed dabbling in efforts to determine the LD50 of caffiene (nothing definate, yet).

How in the heck do you lube those funky two-diameter Lyman Silhouette bullets (6-- cherry)?

225646 55gr
268645
280642 150gr
287641 160gr
311644 190gr
 
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Ben

Ben

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I'd think you could lube the rear grooves as usual.
Then roll the bullets in Ben's Liquid Lube .
The nose will get plenty of lubrication with this method.
 
fiver

fiver

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7-1/2 shot works just fine.
I generally plug everything but the middle holes on my star sizers and use just one lube groove anyway.
the loverign designs still fill 2 or 3 grooves just using the single row of holes in the die.
the last dies I had made with one row of holes to skip the plugging part.
 
Elric

Elric

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"How in the heck do you lube those funky two-diameter Lyman Silhouette bullets (6-- cherry)?"

Ben said:
I'd think you could lube the rear grooves as usual. Then roll the bullets in Ben's Liquid Lube . The nose will get plenty of lubrication with this method.
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I'd buy that for a dollar.
 
Elric

Elric

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How in the heck do you lube those funky two-diameter Lyman Silhouette bullets (6-- cherry)?

Ian said:
You could read the other recent thread you started along these lines and observe some of the responses, particularly Dusty Bannister's:

http://www.artfulbullet.com/index.p...an-and-rcbs-current-production-h-i-dies.2912/
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Responses talk about either not using or plugging the lube holes in the H&I die. They do not mention lubing smaller diameter nose grooves. Ben advises to lube the lower bands, then roll in a liquid lube for the top bands. Sorta reminds me of someone I never met, Mañuel Labor... Nobody that I want to be acquainted with....
 
fiver

fiver

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those nose grooves really don't need lube.
Bens response can improve accuracy though.
I have tested all kinds of stuff on bore ride noses.
it generally helps to have a very, very thin amount of lube on them, one of the better nose lubes is bryl-cream,,,, yep the hair stuff.
just about anything thing that is thin and contains lanolin applied in a wiff seems to do better than nothing in most cases.
 
Ian

Ian

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We've been shooting silhouette bullets with long, bore-riding, bare noses for a hundred years now and nobody ever seemed to need lubricate them in the past.

The grooves on the ___664 bullets are no exception to that. So plug the holes if necessary (or not if not) to keep from getting lube between the gas check and ejector, line up one set of holes with the driving band between the lube grooves, and avoid a bunch of Manuel's processes, including wiping the bullet bases after sizing/lubing.
 
Brad

Brad

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Either fingers or a light roll in something like BLL.
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to overthink it. Try them bare then decide if lube is even needed on the nose.
 
KHornet

KHornet

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Have been shooting the 22 and 30 cal versions of this bullet
ever since they started producing them. They shoot well with
the front grooves bare, and they shoot well with the front
grooves lightly lubed with BLL. Can't tell the difference in
accuracy. Both cals are excellent paper punchers.

Paul
 
quicksylver

quicksylver

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I would worry about it like I worry about the top 3 or 4 grooves on the 315..in other words ..not..or lightly roll in BLL
 
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