I use the above quoted oven melt out method. I also blasted the interior of the empty lubrisizer with brake cleaner as an extra measure of clean out. Then quickly reloaded the lubrisizer with my...
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
I use the above quoted oven melt out method. I also blasted the interior of the empty lubrisizer with brake cleaner as an extra measure of clean out. Then quickly reloaded the lubrisizer with my...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I really dislike that phrase "loaded a case full of black". It does make it sound like a case is filled flush to the case mouth.
If you did fill that much powder you would be compressing the powder...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Unless for ML (muzzle loader) user the shooter chooses to weigh his power charges and put it into quick load tubes.
Then he doesn't have to mess around dispensing powder into a volume measure at the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I agree with that statement.
True the density can vary lot to lot and brand to brand.
Nope I disagree.
If a less dense lot or brand of black powder fuel is measured by weight it will...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Emmert’s Improved recipe calls for Crisco, my lubed bullets that have been lube and stored developed an issue where the 20:1 lead:tin alloy was developing white powdery corrosion where the lube...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Trail boss might return quicker now that Vihtavuori Tin Star Powder N32C has been discontinued and is no longer in active production. That leaves a gap in the high bulk niche powder business.
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
Exposure to air would cause evaporation of alcohols out of the Beeswax and both shrinkage and hardening.
Also oxidation would cause the wax to turn white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeswax...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Anyone know what the original 9 ingredients that were in Hoppe’s #9?
I know one ingredient was the banana oil scent, which put me and 50% of firearm enthusiast off using Hoppe’s 9.
I know benzene...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have only annealed 45 Colt cases not the long cases the OP mentioned.
I used a simple system consisting of placing a case in a 13 mm deep socked that had 1/4” an adapter to fit into the chuck of a...
Forum: Leverguns
I have a Miroku/Winchester 73 rifle and Ruger New Vaquero revolvers both chambered in 45 Colt.
The load I use the most is 35 grains of 2fg O.E Black Powder and 9.2 grains of CFE-Pistol, a CCI 350...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Further info to the first post:
2 problems revealed them selves when I got out of storage the large 64 oz steel can I used 6 years ago when I made my batch of Emmerts Improved bullet lube.
1) I...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Looking for a lube better than SPG or Emmert's Improved to use with Black Powder and Smokeless.
I liked SPG, it did work good but always having to order it and have it shipped was a nuisance.
It...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Lube Purging, which of the following 2 explanations correctly defines it?
Possible explanation #1) - I thought lube purging occurred after several shots were fired, coating the bore with BP...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Were you able chronograph the cold barrel high impact shots? If those shots exited the muzzle a little slower, then the increased time the bullet stayed in barrel allowed time for the barrel to rise...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I have no doubt the some bullet lubes perform best within a certain temperature range.
We all want lube that works perfectly across the full range of ambient temperatures we might be shooting in,...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Q-Tip with EEZOX, it will clean and rust proof the dies.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
If your current lube won’t group shots till the chamber and barrel warms up then your lube is too hard for the ambient temperature.
I have read many post where NLGI #2 grease (Lucas Red-N- Tacky...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I would compress the black powder first, that creates a hard surface that the cream of wheat (COW) won’t penetrate.
But to be sure the BP an COW stays separate I would tamp in a disk of very thin...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Was your accurate load discovered at the light charge weight (low compression) end of the load range or at the heavy charge weight (high compression) end of the load range.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
If the bullets are totally encapsulated with copper plating, I would cut each bullet in half so the lead has a way out of the copper skin.
The lube will melt off and smoke a lot, throw in a match...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Micro groove rifling or standard Ballard rifling?
I would loose wool op wad and the lube cookie, so I put as much compressed BP in the case as I could.
If more lube is required a better bullet...
Forum: Cast Boolits
post #24, are the screen shots from the “Quick Load” program?
I see value units for example “Ba f(z)” plus others that I’ve never see or heard of before.
And “Vivacities”? I’ll need tI look...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Makers Mark fancy bottle topping is a thermal plastic.
Cheese wheel wax only contains a very small portion of a firming wax that may not be Carnauba wax, as it’s expensive.
Why anyone would...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
ATF will be blended with and diluted in other substances like beeswax that make up the greasy bullet lube.
I would choose to use a vegetable based ATF like Lubegard brand that says it made from...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Thanks for the information on the high 40% anhydrous lanolin content of your lube.
My latest batch of homemade BP/smokeless lube (which I haven’t had the time to try yet) has 14.5% anhydrous...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |