pan lube?

[Greg_R]

I have been using Lee Liquid Alox eclusively to lube my boolits. I have a bunch of Lee 459-405-HB ready to be lubed and wondering if pan lube would be better? Thinking about trying the pariffin/vaselive/ STP lube. Will it be better than LLA? Or is one as good as the other? Or should i do both, pan lube then tumble lube? Or leave well enough alone as I have not been having any problems with just the plain LLA?

[Motard]

experts will chime in better than me, but I bet it depends on speeds you are aiming at. I have been shooting this same bullett in 45-70 both dip lubed and 40-60 Ms-La lubed with no perceptable difference and NO leading at all up to 1450-1750 fps. but sizig dip lubed is way more a mess than simply LLubingeither two or three layers

[blikseme300]

If it works why try to fix it? Not that this has stopped me in the past to try other methods as it is useful to know how the other methods work.

[fryboy]

if it aint broke ..... it doesnt need fixed but some of us have this innate curiosity :P

the hollow base raise a concern of it getting filled and then having to be cleaned out or risk contaminating the powder/primer , it can be done of course
Motard is correct dip lubing can be messy lolz , many who use pan lubing use a kake kutter , i've done so myself ( it too can sometimes be a wee messy ) IF i have to pan lube i prefer the "whack it/crack it" method , of note lube for this is a little more umm task specific
much better than LLA plain is recluse's recipe aka 45/45/10 , from all reports ben's liquid lube ( BLL ) is also decent