Diff Manufactures molds and Lee Alox

[toddx]

Hello Professors.
Can I use any assortment of bullet molds and still use the Lee lubing method on them?
like this Lyman bullet for example.
#311440? Can I lube it the Lee way and be OK.
Thanks.

[Atakawow]

You can smear that stuff over anything and it will work just fine. :bigsmyl2:

[geargnasher]

Lee has been marketing Liquid Alox for boolit lube LONG before anything resembling "tumble lube" microband boolit moulds were even thought of. Yes, it works. 45/45/10 works better, as to conventional groove designs IME.

Gear

[TinCan Assassin]

You can smear that stuff over anything and it will work just fine. :bigsmyl2:

My wife might object to that. :hijack: [smilie=6:

TCA

[pdawg_shooter]

My wife might object to that. :hijack: [smilie=6:

TCA

But then she might just like it. Than you are stuck.....

[williamwaco]

I have used it on conventional bullets of .30, .338, .357, .375, .40, .44, and .45 .

It works perfectly on allof them.


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[rintinglen]

My experience parralels that of Waco William. The stuff works on conventional boolits just fine. It works on Louverin boolits especially well, but I have run 311-291's at 2300 fps from my 30-40 lubed with pure LLA. I use recluse 45/45/10 now, as it dries faster and works just as well with the handgun boolits that make up most of my shooting these days. When pushing boolits fast, the faint "glaze" that is just fine for pistol stuff won't cut the mustard. Double dip them.

[williamwaco]

My experience parralels that of Waco William. The stuff works on conventional boolits just fine. It works on Louverin boolits especially well, but I have run 311-291's at 2300 fps from my 30-40 lubed with pure LLA. I use recluse 45/45/10 now, as it dries faster and works just as well with the handgun boolits that make up most of my shooting these days. When pushing boolits fast, the faint "glaze" that is just fine for pistol stuff won't cut the mustard. Double dip them.

My testing is not complete but I find that at 1950 fps with the Lee C309-170-F tumbled twice in straight LLA, I get no leading BUT accuracy goes out the window somewhere around 1500-1600 fps.
( Out the window means 18 to 24 inch groups at 50 yards. )

I used to get good accuracy (3" at 100 yd) with the 311041 at 2200fps but that was a different bullet, different powder, different rifle, different decade.

[Recluse]

My best accuracy comes when I tumble-lube my (standard groove) 148WC boolits, then load them with 2.7 grains of Bullseye. I've experimented with several stick lubes and even a few bouts of pain-lubing (aka pan lubing), and the best and most consistent accuracy comes with tumble-lubing in a 45/45/10 lube.

I also tumble lube my little 102 grain .356 round nose boolits for .380.

My number two favorite boolit is the Lee 200SWC in .452, and I get one ragged hole at 75' tumble-lubing those boolits, then loading with 4.3 grains of Bullseye.

Couple of years ago, I was making up a batch of 45/45/10 and added some of Randyrat's beeswax to it along with a little stearate by way of finely ground Ivory soap. Poured the molten lube into my stick molds and tried it out.

Incredible. Simple incredible lube. Needs heat, but you could add a little vasoline to the mix to negate the need for heat.

But tumble-lubing traditional/standard lube-groove boolits? Absolutely can be done and a lot of folks do it for certain boolits and some folks do it with all boolits.

My philosophy has always been to find out what works best for each situation, then stick with it. Rarely is there ever a "one size fits all" technique or solution.

:coffee:

[btroj]

I am currently using 45/45/10 on Lee 158 swc with traditional grooves. Works quite well.
I have tried it with other designs but may well give it a chance with my Miha 200 swc for 45 ACP.

The stuff just plain works.