OT-Hornaday Cast boolit lube?

SmokeEater2 · Post by **SmokeEater2** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:16 pm

I bought a couple boxes of Hornaday cast .45 bullets and they have some sort of graphite (or something) dry lube on them. Anyone ever used them as is? I'm wondering if this powder stuff will be enough to keep them from leading up the barrel at standard 45 Colt speeds. Anyone?

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:52 pm

SmokeEater2,

I've used a lot of Hornady, Speer and Remington lead bullets.
I've never found the lube they put on to be enough. I used to run them through my Lube-A-Matic to add more real lube, but the last year or so I've been lubing them with LEE Liquid Alox lube right over the factory lube. That seems to work wonders.

Joe

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:14 pm

I tried some years ago before I started casting my own. I was not impressed with them and spent a long time removing lead from my bore. They definitely need more lube on them to shoot clean.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:44 pm

The soft swauged factory bullets need several things to work clean.
>They need the proper chamber pressure to expand them to seal the throats and bore.
>They need to be reasonably close to the throat diameter to start with, shooting a .452" bullet out of .457" throats won't work no matter how much lube you add.
>They are more critical when it comes to case neck tension. If the neck is too tight it will actually squish the bullets down a bit and worsen the problem.

Joe

SmokeEater2 · Post by **SmokeEater2** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:39 am

Thanks for the answers guys. I'm gonna' slap some liquid Alox on 'em.

Big Bore 94 · Post by **Big Bore 94** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:57 am

Leading was a big problem even with a new barrel and very mild loadings. That was more than 15 years ago and I have never finish my first box.