A Lube Question

[enfieldphile]

Gentlemen:

The combination of the LEE 228 grain RN, 2-lube groove boolit, and a taper crimp die got my EAA Witness Match .45 feeding and shooting quite well!

The Boolit is lubed w/ 50/50 lube. I have been filing both grooves w/ lube.

The load is 5.6 of HERCO, assembled on a LEE Classic Cast Turret Press, Pro Autodisk powder measurew/ riser tube, 4- die LEE die set ( a LEE Taper Crimp die has bee substituted for the LEE carbide/crimp die)

The EAA Witness Match .45 has one of the smoothest barrels I have ever seen on a .45. There are zero tool marks in the barrel, it's just mirror bright.

After 200 rounds; the barrel interior was perfectly clean, not even any powder residue. However, the feed ramp had quite a bit of bullet lube, also the follower & sides of the magazines had a sticky lube coating. Recovered brass had a sticky lube coat too.

Should I reduce the amount of lube to just the bottom lube groove? Might reducing the amount of lube by 50% induce leading, or cause a reduction in accuracy?

10 shots off the bench
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_0890.jpg

10 shots off-hand
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_0870.jpg

EAA Witness/Tanfoglio .45acp Match http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_0853.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/100_0856.jpg

[mooman76]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[44man]

It shoots too good, just clean more!
All of my revolver brass gets full of lube but I would not change for anything because of the accuracy.

[Calamity Jake]

You don't know if accuracy will be effected until you try it!!

[Brithunter]

Now this post makes me sad, you see that Pistols soooooooooo closely resembles the Tan Ultra in 41AE that I lost in the ban :roll: Though mine had the nice wood chequering grips and ported barrel, 4 ports, 2 eitehr side of the foresight. Yes Tanfoglio's do shoot well :-D.

[DLCTEX]

I lube only one groove on that boolit and have no leading problems. DALE That is, since I started sizing .452 instead of .451

[enfieldphile]

Now this post makes me sad, you see that Pistols soooooooooo closely resembles the Tan Ultra in 41AE that I lost in the ban :roll: Yes Tanfoglio's do shoot well :-D.

Lost... :confused: stolen by a bad law more as like! You have my sympathy. :(


Dale, I also size to .452, although the die hardly (barely) touches the sides of the boolit @ all! A Lyman .452 sizer die in a RCBS (Early 80's production) luber/sizer.