Not sure where to post my problem in the Lube area or here in BP Ctg.
My 45 Colt cartridges are creating dots of black tar like fouling on the outside of the cases. Cases have been annealed.
This tar substance is acting like glue on the cases making extraction very difficult and sometimes the cylinder must be removed and the stuck case pushed out with a wood dowel.
I’m loading 35 grs of GOEX 2fg and sometimes 35 grs of Old Eynsford 3 fg in Starline and Hornady cases.
My bullets are a RNFP from a SAECO mold # 955, they drop at ~264 gr.
I lube the bullet with homemade Emmerts Improved lube.
50% beeswax, 40% Crisco, 5% EVOO, 5% lanolin.
I shoot these handloads in 2 Ruger New Vaquero revolvers.
After about 3 to 4 full cylinders have been shot, the sticky extraction problem starts and gets worst if I continue firing and more tar accumulates. I’m sure the tar in also building up in the chambers but I can’t see it directly through the powder fouling lining the chambers walls.
Fired cases from my M1873 are not experiencing any sticky extraction but the rifle has a much bigger chamber. Fired cases from the M73 will only insert half way into all the Ruger chambers.
I don’t shoot enough smokeless powder to recall if I get this sticky extraction with this bullet & lube with smokeless.
I don’t know if it was just yesterday’s weather conditions, it was very hot and so were the Rugers.
Has something gone wrong with my lube?