My first try at Pan Lube

[johnhenry57]

I'm using 50% bee's wax and 50% lard. I'll load em up tonight and try them tomorrow! The pic is the second batch. The first batch filled the pan.

[Chill Wills]

Looks like a good start. Did you push them out from top to bottom? Looks like your lever rifle bullets maybe?

[toallmy]

I just finished dip lubing around a hundred 30-30 boolits then I used a cake cutter to trim . It's slow but it works just fine . Your boolits look just fine , but did you make a mess ?

[johnhenry57]

I pulled em out from the top. Found it to be easier when a little warm. Did a factory crimp on them for my 1886. 500gr boolits and 50grs of BP. Gives it a 1/16 compression with an .060 wad. Time to get this gun dirty lol

[johnhenry57]

BTW I found a place in Dripping Springs, Tx. About 20 minutes from my house that sells 100% Bee's wax for $12 a pound. Mixed with Lard at $1.97 a pound it makes a pretty cheap lube.

[rwadley]

RandyRat is a vendor sponsor here. He sells beeswax for cheap. He's it right now, but here is his thread: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...eswax-for-sale

[johnhenry57]

Wow, that's a big savings. Many thanks!!!! rwadley

[Chill Wills]

So, ..... Did you like the way they shoot?

[johnhenry57]

I was a bit skeptical at first. But after the first shot.......wow, real nice. More of a push than a crack to the shoulder. I have a tang sight on my Shiloh Sharps so I ordered up a base to fit the Winchester. Then pulled the staff from the Sharps. Replaced the front with a combo flip front sight. Got her dialed in at 100 yds. I could actually hear the boolit wizzing through the air 'till it struck the target. Perfect holes, no key holing.

[Chill Wills]

Nice! Good looking rifle with great color case, Shooting BP and a load that meets your needs.
Life is good.

[johnhenry57]

Nice! Good looking rifle with great color case, Shooting BP and a load that meets your needs.
Life is good.

Thanks chill,
The rifle looks great thanks to Doug Turnbull. He also removed the tang safety and the rebounding hammer. Beauty aside, your avatar has something mine has yet to discover. And that is being rich in history.

[country gent]

I pan lube as cast for my BPCR rounds, my pans hold a couple hundred bullets at a time. Once gotten hot on the stove that mass takes awhile to cool down where it can be moved. I cut right out of the pan with the cake cutter. This leaves to holes to stack the next batch in to help support them when moving the pans around. I use SPG or Emmerets lube ( 50% Beeswax, 40% Crisco unsalted shortening, 5% canola oil, and 5% anahydrous lanolin). I made my cake cutter from .015 wall thickness hobby store brass tube I sized down in a sizing die slowly to the cut dia desired. Then sharpened the end with a vld style deburring tool. A piece of tygon tubing on the back half makes a comfortable grip. I cut and let the new bullet push the previous ones up and out thru the top of the tubing. I cut mine from the pan slightly bigger so the lube forms a sealed ring in the case when seated and is slightly compressed. I believe my .459 cut .470 dia this allows the lube to push thru belled mouth into case and be a slightly compressed seal.

[johnhenry57]

That's a lot of boolits in a pan!

[country gent]

the 500 grn to 550 grn bullerts and lube makes for a heavy pan to pick up LOL. I have several lengths of cloths line rope tied in a figure 8 with the not on the cross over. Set it on the counter set pan with knotin middle of pan and lines around out sides of corners . Pick up by the loops and you have a carrier / handles to move them around easier.

[johnhenry57]

Post some pics, I'm sure we would all like to see

[Dan Cash]

45-70? 50 grains black powder? Why the squibb load. You will find best accuracy with 65 to 72 grains of 2Fg black.

[Shooter6br]

I use the same Little differant Emment's lube

[johnhenry57]

45-70? 50 grains black powder? Why the squibb load. You will find best accuracy with 65 to 72 grains of 2Fg black.

So..........ditch the wad and fill er up?