Lee Liquid Alox Cast Bullet Lube and High Powered Rifles??????????

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Was checking on-line about this stuff and it seems to get pretty good reviews but all I could find was on handguns.

I picked a bottle up and treated up some 7x57 cast bullets. Has anyone here used this stuff before with high powered rifles? If so did it lead the barrel on you? Was accuracy decent? The load I am shooting runs about 1000 fps.

I have shot cast for over 30 years and this is the first time I have used this type of lube method. It just seems wrong as the bullets grooves aren't packed but it sure makes it easy, especially when you are not sizing the bullets.

Thanks for any feedback.
 
Great stuff on cast bullets that have that blue hard wax lube already on them. In my experience I have to get up around 2000fps to get that Blue stuff to melt and actually lube. At least that is what I have see with my bullets recovered from a sand berm.
I use CUT Lee Alox very sparingly with good results .

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i've only used it with hand gun bullets, but more then 1000 FPS, much more. for my 357 i use lee TL bullets with alox* with 15.5gr of h110 which is just shy of 1500FPS. but i don't like how they look like crap once the lube is dry, i've since switch to the lyman 4500.

and for the love of god, they are not high powered rifles...... they are just rifles....

*= i mix alox with other stuff to "thin" it out. 45:45:10 ratio of alox:minwax floor paste:mineral spirits.
 
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I also have recently started to use liquid Alox on commercial cast bullets to supplement the hard lube they usually come with. You can buy it from Dragon Bullet Lube as Dralox for a lower unit price than the Lee product.
 
I've fired a couple thousand rifle rounds using Lee liquid alox (LLA) over the past couple years since I started casting bullets. I've had leading with it at low velocities, high velocities, no leading at both, poor accuracy, good accuracy, and everything in between.

Bullet fit to bore is far more important than small differences in lube. With a good fit to bore (1ish thou over bore diameter) and a gas check if required I have shot 1.5 MOA groups with cast bullets using LLA. I have also shot 24" groups with bad leading at 50yds (48 MOA?) with the wrong bullets (was using .311" bullets in an Enfield I later slugged and found to be .315"). LLA works great in any rifle or pistol bullet with Lee micro band lube groves up to huge lube groves meant for soft black powder lube. I have used it with good accuracy from 700fps to 2000fps in many different calibres.
 
I have used it for a .308 shooting a Lee 160 RN GC cast from Linotype up to 2400 fps. No problems from a very smooth bore. Also used in a .357 mag carbine at 1600 fps, worked good.
 
I pretty much only shoot cast bullets these days. Lee liquid alox has performed great for me. I usually shoot 50 rounds through each gun and they seem to have little to no leading at the end of my shooting.

That being said I think proper bullet sizing is way more important with cast rifle rounds.
 
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