Teflon tape for lube ?

[johnch]

I was at the range last night .
As I waited to go down range to post a target ,I saw a guy shooting a 44 mag with CB.
I ask what he was loading , he stated he was shooting a almost pure lead GC bullet lubed with plumbers teflon tape .
He claimed almost no leading .
I ask HOW
He said you wrap the bullet 4-6 times and size , then load right away.

IMO this would be slow .

I have never heard of this , has anyone else ??


I may try it ,as few rounds as needed for hunting it might be do able but a pain in the @$$

Johnch

[45 2.1]

Its been around for a long time. Usually in relation to patching high speed cast bullets.

[Bass Ackward]

I was at the range last night .
As I waited to go down range to post a target ,I saw a guy shooting a 44 mag with CB. I ask what he was loading , he stated he was shooting a almost pure lead GC bullet lubed with plumbers teflon tape .

I have never heard of this , has anyone else ??

Johnch

John,

Oh yea. Some experts have told me multiple reasons to use it over the years. Let's see if I can remember a few.

One guy said it increased bullet diameter.

Another said it was the only way to make Liquid Alox work.

Another said that he accidently ordered a case of teflon tape instead of electrical tape and by goodness, he was going to use it for something.

Another guy said that he was a $hity caster and mummifying his bullets was the only way to .... respectability.

Those were the best reasons I heard.

[Buckshot]

...........Yup, another way to 'Paper patch' boolits without paper .......er, ah, and no spit, neither :D. I've also heard of wrapping with sticky backed address lables and masking tape. I HAVE told muself several times that I would try some Teflon wrapped boolits, but as yet haven't indulged. You can buy different width Teflon pipe tape so if you were doing a 540gr 45 slug, you wouldn't have to use that 3/8" wide stuff to wrap it up like a barber's pole.

...............Buckshot

[castalott]

It does work ... a friend wraps .452 tumble lube bullets with several wraps and
shoots it in his 45/70...at +45 acp velocities or so. It stays on our sillly-ette animals if you do your part offhand. (1/2 size but closer than 1/2 distance for iron sighted leverfun!)There is no leading at low velocity...the barrel looks great! The sheep go over with authority too. And we stand at attention after each 'shot' as we think all the confetti means a Parade is coming!

[buck1]

I found this thread in a search. Any advice before I try it?? ...Buck

[johnch]

I used a modifed version for deer hunting last week with good results .( 3 does with 3 shots , 10' to 80 yds)

It is a pain to wrap the bullets .
It is time consuming .

I wraped 1 bullet ( I used 5 wraps , I picked a number ) took the tape off and cut a bunch of peices the same length .

I then seated the gas check and sized the 44 bullet .
This pushed some teflon onto the side and the rest filled the grease groves

I then lubed with Lee liquid Alox .
BUT several pointed out to me that this step is probely not needed .

I used 296 and a Fed mag pistol primer , someone stated this in his tests hurts accurey.( mag primer)

I am going to do a lot of testing in the coming months to see what works and what dosn't for me .

You can read the posts in my post 40 - 1 on deer (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=3728)

Johnch

[buck1]

Thanks johnch! ...Buck