OT-Hornaday Cast boolit lube?
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OT-Hornaday Cast boolit lube?
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?
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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
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
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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
>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
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
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