Lubing the bullets.
- Thread starter johnnyjr
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Depends... most pistol cast gets some LLA/floor wax/turp mix... if it's to get a conventional lube, then I'll wait until it's closer to reload date and place in an easy to store container. I have thickened up some 50/50 with some carnuba and that holds up a little better in a container.
Any more, I use traditional lube almost never. When I did, I did as the previous two - either storing in suitable plastic containers for any I lube right away, or storing unlubed/unsized bullets in a jumble in any suitable container until I needed them and then lube/size them.
With the tumble-lubes, I lube everything a soon as I can with at least one coat. Then, if I know what size I need and have time, I'll size and then tumble again. In either case, I store them all in a jumble in a clear plastic food jar (peanut butter, apple-sauce, jelly...) which makes it easy to see what's inside. With one bullet, a 148 grain, 35 cal wadcutter, I tumble-lube twice and put them in the jar without sizing and load them that way.
I was using a bunch of different containers until I saw @CWLONGSHOT 's shelves full of jars of multi-flavored "jelly-beans" and started reusing some of the nicer food containers we empty.
With the tumble-lubes, I lube everything a soon as I can with at least one coat. Then, if I know what size I need and have time, I'll size and then tumble again. In either case, I store them all in a jumble in a clear plastic food jar (peanut butter, apple-sauce, jelly...) which makes it easy to see what's inside. With one bullet, a 148 grain, 35 cal wadcutter, I tumble-lube twice and put them in the jar without sizing and load them that way.
I was using a bunch of different containers until I saw @CWLONGSHOT 's shelves full of jars of multi-flavored "jelly-beans" and started reusing some of the nicer food containers we empty.
I love using empty dry roasted peanut containers!! And I do the same with my wadcutters...
keep it simple!
-Andy
Or YOUR side can split!
Or SOMETHING on you will split.
I've read about age-hardening, age softening, but no one ever mentions the other more critical of the lead alloy phenomena - that it gets heavier the longer you let it sit!
Fill a bunch of 50 Cal. ammo cans with ingots when you're thirty and then pick them up when you turn sixty. Thirty years DOUBLES the weight.
JBinMN
Member
Most times I lube right before loading & if not going to load them for a while they go into assorted containers.
I mostly tumble lube handgun bullets & pan lube rifle bullets.
I started to PC bullets of both handgun & rifle about 4-5 years ago, but not on a regular basis.
Since I still am one who cares to for the "old school" type lube processes instead of PCing, just because I kind of like doing the old ways, it comes down to , for "me", that I can just choose the process of lubing, of any kind, when I decide what I want to do.
Leaving the bullets either "as cast"/un-sized, or even sized only without lube of any kind, just placed in containers; pretty much leaves the door open for what I want to do, "When" I want to do it.
I am not like a lot of folks seem to be in this "community", I reckon.
I am not competing or trying to keep up with anyone.
I just do what I want to do, when I want to do it.
I load/reload when I feel like it, test what I want to test.
I go shoot when it is decent out & have can fun at doing it, & I have no pressure to do otherwise, so I can do what I want to do at the pace & timing I choose & I have no one who I have to answer to for my doins.
( I DO wish I had more folks that were interested in what we do, here where I am at, but not so much in my AO as far as I know, & while I do have some who like to load/reload, shoot, etc. , Most just want to have a few beers or cocktails & talk more than "do"... So, I just do what "I" do & go from there. An old saying I learned a long time ago was, "You can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make it drink.", and the other one that describes me is..."If ya don't like my gate, ya don't have to swing on the hinges".
Both apply in my case hereabouts. Some say they want to do things, but only talk, the others want to talk, but when it comes to doing, only want me to talk & not do... Something like that anyway.
)
So, I just do things at my own pace & , regardless of what everyone else wants to do, I just go with the idea that If something doesn't work out, I can always just melt stuff down & start over & just , "Keep on Truckin'.
Eventually I get where I want to be.
Ain't no bayonet up my assend trying to get me there faster than I want to be there.
YMMV, of course.
I reckon it depends on what ya want to do with your time.
I don't think I am in a race, so why push things. I am only getting older, & got plenty of stuff to play with as far as components. Why hurry? .
DOn't know if there is any advanrage one way or the other to "pre-lube" or not. Just have not found any reason to be concerned.
I will be happy to learn something new if I see the advantages though.
No matter what anyone says, Old dogs CAN learn new tricks.
G'Luck~!
I mostly tumble lube handgun bullets & pan lube rifle bullets.
I started to PC bullets of both handgun & rifle about 4-5 years ago, but not on a regular basis.
Since I still am one who cares to for the "old school" type lube processes instead of PCing, just because I kind of like doing the old ways, it comes down to , for "me", that I can just choose the process of lubing, of any kind, when I decide what I want to do.
Leaving the bullets either "as cast"/un-sized, or even sized only without lube of any kind, just placed in containers; pretty much leaves the door open for what I want to do, "When" I want to do it.
I am not like a lot of folks seem to be in this "community", I reckon.
I am not competing or trying to keep up with anyone.
I just do what I want to do, when I want to do it.
I load/reload when I feel like it, test what I want to test.
I go shoot when it is decent out & have can fun at doing it, & I have no pressure to do otherwise, so I can do what I want to do at the pace & timing I choose & I have no one who I have to answer to for my doins.
( I DO wish I had more folks that were interested in what we do, here where I am at, but not so much in my AO as far as I know, & while I do have some who like to load/reload, shoot, etc. , Most just want to have a few beers or cocktails & talk more than "do"... So, I just do what "I" do & go from there. An old saying I learned a long time ago was, "You can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make it drink.", and the other one that describes me is..."If ya don't like my gate, ya don't have to swing on the hinges".
Both apply in my case hereabouts. Some say they want to do things, but only talk, the others want to talk, but when it comes to doing, only want me to talk & not do... Something like that anyway.
)So, I just do things at my own pace & , regardless of what everyone else wants to do, I just go with the idea that If something doesn't work out, I can always just melt stuff down & start over & just , "Keep on Truckin'.
Eventually I get where I want to be.
Ain't no bayonet up my assend trying to get me there faster than I want to be there.
YMMV, of course.
I reckon it depends on what ya want to do with your time.
I don't think I am in a race, so why push things. I am only getting older, & got plenty of stuff to play with as far as components. Why hurry? .
DOn't know if there is any advanrage one way or the other to "pre-lube" or not. Just have not found any reason to be concerned.
I will be happy to learn something new if I see the advantages though.
No matter what anyone says, Old dogs CAN learn new tricks.
G'Luck~!
Ian
Notorious member
My FIL smoked cigars and gave me the boxes. Stacks and stacks of all the same size. I would put my lubed bullets in neat rows after wiping the bases off on a piece of the inside of a cereal box or similar kept by the lube-sizer, the when the bottom was full I'd put down a piece of heavy, glossy fiberboard from the Fel-Pro engine gasket set packaging cut for a close fit, then do another layer. Three layers for flat-nose pistol bullets was about all the box could handle.
But I don't hardly lube anything anymore, powder coating has almost completely surplanted traditional lube at my house and it never goes bad. Will split a 5-gallon bucket though just the same as any other lube. I've gone to using the 2-gallon plastic buckets for that, or plywood crates.
But I don't hardly lube anything anymore, powder coating has almost completely surplanted traditional lube at my house and it never goes bad. Will split a 5-gallon bucket though just the same as any other lube. I've gone to using the 2-gallon plastic buckets for that, or plywood crates.
Oh, I don't know about that.
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It's just not criticized, censured, censored or punished. It's sort of the "thing" here.
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RBHarter
West Central AR
The current vernacular definition of Racism is the word for word dictionary definition of heresy.
So if you believe or express thoughts or ideas outside of the mainstream or generally accepted ideology you're a racist.
Boys we be racists cause we don't be fouling barrels with soft alloy going over 2000fps .
Go figure !?!?
So if you believe or express thoughts or ideas outside of the mainstream or generally accepted ideology you're a racist.
Boys we be racists cause we don't be fouling barrels with soft alloy going over 2000fps .
Go figure !?!?