Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
iI did not think anyone was being a dick. I appreciate the candor and all the tips and comments. I'm not your internet whiney type with thin skin or an insecurity complex. Tell me I'm being dumb or an ill-informed and I'll take note and make a correction. I'm a firm believer in mistakes making us better.
I do admit I'm trying to short circuit the path to success by leverage what you folks have learned thru your years of effort. I've had excellent success with Paul's lube in BPCR. But I've shot with some very gifted shooters that use 50/50 beewax and Crisco and shoot the pants off most others on the range. I'm a true believer in the KISS principle. But everything is not simple. I also know that ignorance will lead one to conclusions that would not be reached if better informed. You don't know what you don't know, right?
I have tens of thousands of pistol rounds sent downrange in action type shooting events. .38 spl out of .357 wheelguns and .45ACP out of both wheelguns and autos. Later I put thousands of .45LC downrange in CAS shoots thru a Marlin Cowboy and 4 different SAA Colt's. I bought all my bullets and they came lubed and sized. I won my share of matches and always placed in the top tier of shooters. Commercially made lead bullets and brand X lube always worked for me. Actually, I think most used Alox lube. It was always blue. So, lube has never been anything I gave a second thought to until I started shooting BPCR matches. But the lube's purpose then was to keep the fouling soft and the rifle shooting consistently. Once I settled on Paul's lube, I moved on to getting better at putting the shot where I wanted it to go in spite of the conditions.
So now, with smokeless rounds using lead bullets at reduced velocities, I'm again in search of a lube that will go thru my Lubrisizer relatively easily and give me the consistency I desire from my rifle/cartridge. I hope a slight tweak to Paul's lube will do the trick. If it does, that's what I'll stick with and concentrate once again on making lighter bullets (than my 535 gr Paul Jones Postell) find their mark regardless of conditions that are working against me achieving that goal.
I do admit I'm trying to short circuit the path to success by leverage what you folks have learned thru your years of effort. I've had excellent success with Paul's lube in BPCR. But I've shot with some very gifted shooters that use 50/50 beewax and Crisco and shoot the pants off most others on the range. I'm a true believer in the KISS principle. But everything is not simple. I also know that ignorance will lead one to conclusions that would not be reached if better informed. You don't know what you don't know, right?
I have tens of thousands of pistol rounds sent downrange in action type shooting events. .38 spl out of .357 wheelguns and .45ACP out of both wheelguns and autos. Later I put thousands of .45LC downrange in CAS shoots thru a Marlin Cowboy and 4 different SAA Colt's. I bought all my bullets and they came lubed and sized. I won my share of matches and always placed in the top tier of shooters. Commercially made lead bullets and brand X lube always worked for me. Actually, I think most used Alox lube. It was always blue. So, lube has never been anything I gave a second thought to until I started shooting BPCR matches. But the lube's purpose then was to keep the fouling soft and the rifle shooting consistently. Once I settled on Paul's lube, I moved on to getting better at putting the shot where I wanted it to go in spite of the conditions.
So now, with smokeless rounds using lead bullets at reduced velocities, I'm again in search of a lube that will go thru my Lubrisizer relatively easily and give me the consistency I desire from my rifle/cartridge. I hope a slight tweak to Paul's lube will do the trick. If it does, that's what I'll stick with and concentrate once again on making lighter bullets (than my 535 gr Paul Jones Postell) find their mark regardless of conditions that are working against me achieving that goal.