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Pan Lube: A Detective Story
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Quick and easy, no mess
First thought --ya musta wanted it to fail ---seriously!
pan lubing is 100% reliable , quick and easy
make a push through cookie cutter
get a bottle neck case the right calibre , neck expand it oversize, bell the mouth, cut the rear end off, drill a piece of broom handle so the rear end fits in and it makes a T handle . its comfortable to use and greased boolits come poppin out the top every time you push it down,
The other trick is once you cut em out of the pan the first time just reload new boolits into the holes and heat the whole thing up with a hot air heat gun - only takes a couple minutes compared to messin round with double boilers ona stove. I always melt lube with the heat gun its way heaps quicker than the double boiler but still dont burn the lube (which is main reason for the double boiler ina first place) ..,
this stuff can be simple and quick if we think a bit - but theres a mountain of good advice goin around that gets us slow and difficult ................................
I'm kind of ham fisted, so any boolit with a long skinny ogive gets pan lubed. Too many fat noses and banana boolits otherwise.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
I’ve used all 3 , used the pan in the kitchen when I started, pc’ed for a while in the shop and a lubrisizer and have come back to using the lubrisizer. I clamp my sizers to the bench in my reloading room, plug in the heater and go. I liked the look of the pc boolits but running the Lyman’s are easier. After pan lube or pc your cast boolits you still have to size them. With a lubrisizer one and done. I used commercial lube when I pan lubed.
Last edited by Baltimoreed; 02-08-2023 at 01:17 PM.
I use a lubesizer on all my boolits over .30 caliber, since those are the majority of what I shoot and are less likely to be deformed due to my clumsiness. I've also had very good success running boolits through the Lee sizer and then just dipping in LLA.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
I seriously doubt you get it done quicker than me, I DO get 100%, plus its 400 bucks I rather spend on something else.
Whatever floats yr boat is fine but dont dis pan lube just cuz ya didnt get it figured out
I think the same about the blokes tell us push the boolits outa the lube cake with ya thumb -- thats nuts ----- to me ----- tried it a couple times just for fun = hopeless!!! -- some serious shooters have that down pat so I'm not gonna argue with em - just says we are doin somethin different in the process (lube recipe likely) - theirs works , mine works , yours works ---lets go make some smoke !!!
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 |