Tumble Lubing a non tl boolit.

[toddn84]

Would it be ok to tl a boolit that only has a single lube groove?

[Carolina Cast Bullets]

Sure, I do it all the time with several of my bullets. Works just as well.

Jerry
Carolina Cast Bullets

[toddn84]

Thanks. I have a lee mold right now but have been thinking about an noe mold. guess you just cost me $90. BTW I accept paypal

[btroj]

I've been using the 45/45/10 recipe on standard groove bullets for 38 special quite a bit lately. Works quite nicely.

[geargnasher]

Yes. Lee Liquid Alox was around for 30 years before the first "microband" boolit moulds were made.

Gear

[QuickRick]

I have also tumble lubed several non TL designed bullets with good results. I have used both the straight LLA and the 45/45/10 mixture in 38 Special, 9mm luger, 44 Magnum, and 30-30 Winchester to (1,500 fps). I will soon be trying the 45/45/10 lube for a Lee 145 SWC in 40 caliber. Both lubes are very effective but I have pretty much switched to the 45/45/10 mixture as it is much more user friendly. Good luck and God Bless......

[Elkins45]

Yes. Lee Liquid Alox was around for 30 years before the first "microband" boolit moulds were made.

Gear

You sure about that? I seem to recall both being introduced at the same time in the late 80's.

[Ben]

Alox ( not necessarily Lee Liquid Alox ) was used in WW II as a rust preventative on ships.
Alox is nothing new.

Ben

[oscarflytyer]

I've been using the 45/45/10 recipe on standard groove bullets for 38 special quite a bit lately. Works quite nicely.

+1 - 45/45/10 on 45 Colt/45 ACP/44 SPC.

[nanuk]

You sure about that? I seem to recall both being introduced at the same time in the late 80's.

I think LLA was used as an undercoating for rust prevention in the automotive industry many years before the late 80's....

it just wasn't CALLED LLA.

I did some reading on the Alox/Lubrizol site. interesting.

[williamwaco]

Yes. I do it almost every day.

Rifle, Pistol, and revolver cartridges. All work well.


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[toddn84]

Yes. I do it almost every day.

Rifle, Pistol, and revolver cartridges. All work well.


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what type of rifle? i am about to order parts to build my ar15. I have heard of people shooting 223 rem.on this site with lead cast bullets but i posted a thread on ar15armory.com and everybody there advised me against it.

[Horace]

I would get leading in my 44 mag pistol using hardcast bullets started using LLA on them and would clean the lead out.No more leading while using LLA.

Horace

[toddn84]

what type of lube were you using prior to LLA? Did you switch to straight lla, 45/45/10, or something else?

[ErikO]

Sounds like I'll be tumble-lubing for sure.

Here's a goofy question, would there be any reason to pan lube and then tumble lube boolits?

[Sonnypie]

Alox ( not necessarily Lee Liquid Alox ) was used in WW II as a rust preventative on ships.
Alox is nothing new.

Ben

Not exactly, Ben.
Let's be accurate.
That was Cosmoline.
http://www.cosmolinedirect.com/

[Bullet Caster]

+1 on the 45/45/10. I use it exclusevly in my 3 pistols and only one is a TL design. Now for rifle lube, that's a different horse altogether. I modified the 45/45/10 and mixed up some with 50% beeswax and this seems to work quite nicely for my rifles. BC

[Recluse]

Sounds like I'll be tumble-lubing for sure.

Here's a goofy question, would there be any reason to pan lube and then tumble lube boolits?

Erik, I've got a few bore-riding boolits that I tumble-lube after I've run them through the lubesizer. Seems to help a bit with accuracy and I still get no leading. I don't do it often, though because I don't cast and load those boolits very much.

I've tumble-lubed commercially cast bullets though, but most of the time when I come across some I just toss them in the smelting pot.

[Shiloh]

Have done it often. Works very well for my applications.

SHiloh

[Blacklabbob]

I use this formula on .69 Cal. roundballs shot in my original U.S. Model of 1816 Smoothbore from Harpers Ferry Arsenal in 1833 (percussion). I dimple the balls before tumble lubing.
It does NOT work on Minie balls in rifle/muskets, carbines, or other blackpowder carbines I've used. Have to go to my 1/3 beeswax, 1/3rd Bore Butter, 1/3 Crisco for those. Never tried it in the .44/40 Henry Rifle either. Seems that it is best used with smokeless powders only, the roundball excepted.