Leading in Lipsey's Flattop .44 Special

[olskool]

i have the same gun. i shoot 50% soft lead 50% WW i use beeswax and olive oil mix made into round sticks for my star lube sizer. crayon lube is worthless! if you dig the boolit out of the ground the lube groove will still contain it, you want a lube that dose something other than have color. it should coat the bore and spin off the rest in flight. i get no lead to worry about. i shoot a 429421 and a lee boolit.

[gwpercle]

In handguns soft lubes that do not require a heater work much better . And after 50 years of playing with boolits and lubes one of the better is a Lithium - Beeswax Lube ...
1 part Lithium Grease and 3 parts beeswax ...
not a 50/50 (1 to 1 ) blend ... that has too much grease and is too soft .
Hard lubes that require heat ... Blue and Red hard lube tends to stay in the boolit lube groove where it does nothing .
Gary

[waco]

When this kind of thread comes up, my mind always goes toward expectations. When folks who shoot cast bullets say "no leading" they are not talking about "no leading" as in shooting jacketed bullets. There is always some kind of powder trash, lube and lead wash left in the barrel. This stuff cleans out pretty easy and is just part of the game. Now if the accuracy goes south due to the crap in the barrel before a hundred rounds, then you have leading and time to look for a fix. Leading vs. no leading is determined by the target and not looking down the barrel. You will go nuts trying to get a lead alloy bullet leave a barrel as clean as a jacketed bullet.

Charles has a very good point here. I would heed his advice.

[ddixie884]

Sounds like you are on the right track.......