ClydeK
04-26-2015, 10:17 AM
I"m sure there are others and other posts that do this similarly to me.
I begin by melting my lube mixture in an open metal dish on top of the wood stove. It's my own mixture of bees wax, crayons, actual bullet lube sticks and olive oil. It sets up medium hard once it cools and it's not gummy or sticky
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After the mix is soft I place it next to my cast boolits to be lubed and i have a sheet of plastic handy. Most times I use the bottom of a box that has plastic on it so I may transport the load after i'm done. Using a pair of pliers I gently grip the tip of each bullet and dip it base first into the mix, submerged to the top riding band.
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In very short order each boolit is dipped and drying on the plastic and ready for the next phase.
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As the boolit passes through the sizer excess wax on the riding bands is scraped off during sizing and forms a ball around the pusher part of the sizer. I take the excess wax and put it back into my wax pan.
137927
The finished product is a beautifully lubed cast boolit and excess bits of scrap wax on the base or tip is easily removed with a thumb nail as I prepare each for loading. The boolit in this picture is a 200 grain .452 created with a Lee 6 gang mold. I really like this bullet because the beveled base is easy to load without needing excessive flaring of the case mouth. I throw these into a .45 Colt case over 16 grains of IMR4227
137928
I don't reccommend anyone use my load data without first doing their own workup, but this is how I feed my lovely little Ruger Talo Vaquero .45 for a day of pure pleasure on the range.
I begin by melting my lube mixture in an open metal dish on top of the wood stove. It's my own mixture of bees wax, crayons, actual bullet lube sticks and olive oil. It sets up medium hard once it cools and it's not gummy or sticky
.137922
After the mix is soft I place it next to my cast boolits to be lubed and i have a sheet of plastic handy. Most times I use the bottom of a box that has plastic on it so I may transport the load after i'm done. Using a pair of pliers I gently grip the tip of each bullet and dip it base first into the mix, submerged to the top riding band.
137923
137924
137925
In very short order each boolit is dipped and drying on the plastic and ready for the next phase.
137926
As the boolit passes through the sizer excess wax on the riding bands is scraped off during sizing and forms a ball around the pusher part of the sizer. I take the excess wax and put it back into my wax pan.
137927
The finished product is a beautifully lubed cast boolit and excess bits of scrap wax on the base or tip is easily removed with a thumb nail as I prepare each for loading. The boolit in this picture is a 200 grain .452 created with a Lee 6 gang mold. I really like this bullet because the beveled base is easy to load without needing excessive flaring of the case mouth. I throw these into a .45 Colt case over 16 grains of IMR4227
137928
I don't reccommend anyone use my load data without first doing their own workup, but this is how I feed my lovely little Ruger Talo Vaquero .45 for a day of pure pleasure on the range.