Casting on Sunday

8ball

8ball

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Easy going .451 castings for my Gibbs on this rainy Sunday afternoon...

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Next step is sizing of course but my main issue is that I would like to find another lube recipe. The one I am using tend to dry and becoming brittle after one week on the shelf...
 
oldrodder said:
Are you using a lubrisizer or pan lubing? Lots of recipes on the net. My favorite is Paul Mathews "Premium" lube.
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I do pan lubing. There are so many recipes on the web but I ever found one to rely on. I panlube a few days before shooting sessions to prevent it from drying out...
 
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fingers284 said:
Read everything you can on Powder coating... no mess-usable 5 minutes after leaving oven- and they will never deteriorate with time or weather.
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It's great for modern powder but I think it will not work properly for black powder long range rifles. The lube is there to soften black powder residues...
 
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I use this lube for pan lubing a .58 cal Minnie ball. Works great even in hot weather.


Emmert's Lube:

50% Pure Natural Beeswax, 40% Crisco, and 10% Anhydrous Lanolin.
 
Goex said:
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I use this lube for pan lubing a .58 cal Minnie ball. Works great even in hot weather.


Emmert's Lube:

50% Pure Natural Beeswax, 40% Crisco, and 10% Anhydrous Lanolin.
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I think I will give your recipe a try. Mine was 40% beeswax, 40% paraffin and 20% Vaseline. I think paraffin is the thing that makes the grease becoming brittle time after...
 
Goex said:
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I use this lube for pan lubing a .58 cal Minnie ball. Works great even in hot weather.


Emmert's Lube:

50% Pure Natural Beeswax, 40% Crisco, and 10% Anhydrous Lanolin.
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This is what I use for my sharps 45/70 black powder and lube stays good for a long time. I use a double boiler on the camp stove and pour it into a 1 inch copper pipe with a wooded dowel down the middle held in the middle by the end caps. Once it hardens I remove it and roll it in tin foil and put it away for storage or right into the lube sizer. Works great.
 
8ball said:
It's great for modern powder but I think it will not work properly for black powder long range rifles. The lube is there to soften black powder residues...
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Lots of folks use PC for BP cartridge shooting by using a grease cookie between powder and slug. One of the benefits of using a grease cookie and dry lubed PC slugs is that the slug can be seated out as far as the rifling lands will allow that some shooters find shoot very well in their rifles without the soft lube getting fowled with grit.
 
fingers284 said:
Lots of folks use PC for BP cartridge shooting by using a grease cookie between powder and slug. One of the benefits of using a grease cookie and dry lubed PC slugs is that the slug can be seated out as far as the rifling lands will allow that some shooters find shoot very well in their rifles without the soft lube getting fowled with grit.
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My reload sequence is pouring my powder through a 38'' funnel. Then I gently seat a lubed wad and after I pass a lightly wet moose milk patch and then a dry one and finally I gently seat my lubed bullet trough the clean bore on the wad. No grit ever here and no wet powder.
 
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