Is there a FPS limit for pure Bees Wax Bullet/Boolit Lube?

[Johnny Diamond]

Whale Sperm ?
Do you think that might have been Sperm Whale Oil ...
although I would love to know why they are called Sperm Whales ... got to be a good story there !

From what I've read the oil was in the whales head and it somehow had to do with the whales navigation abilities (sonar) and the oil looked like.... you guessed it!

FINEM RESPICE ~ MEMENTO MORI

[Rapier]

Hum…..

[Good Cheer]

This thread made me wonder with the best of lubes what's the high end FPS velocity people have found with pure lead.

[Charlie Horse]

For many complex reasons ... bullet lube can be complicated ... pure beeswax doesn't have everything needed to make a decent lubricant .
There is a simple additive , better than the the latest formulations of Alox, that can be added to beeswax to make it a decent Lubricant that I've used in magnum handgun loading , 1250 fps or so and loads in 30-30 Winchester at 1600 fps .
take : 1 part Lithium Grease ( Lucas Red-N-Tacky is my grease of choice) and blend with
3 parts Beeswax
This was known as Lithi-Bee , I got the recipe from a commerical Lube maker , Garth Choate , when he informed me they no longer made and sold boolit lubes .
After 50 years of cast boolits I keep coming back to Lithi-Bee ... it works , I've NEVER had lead deposited in a barrel when using it ... Never !!! The formula can't be any easier ...
... 1 part Lithium Grease to 3 parts - Beeswax ... that's all there is to it .
Gary

I assume you use this in your lubrisizer? I might try this on 357 rifle boolits.

[Outpost75]

This thread made me wonder with the best of lubes what's the high end FPS velocity people have found with pure lead.

With pure lead you run into strength of material issues above black powder velocities. I have used soft 1 to 40 tin-lead alloy with gaschecked #429215 in full charge .44-40 rifle loads using 50-50 beeswax and olive oil.

[Walks]

This thread is both informative and HILARIOUS.

[waksupi]

I'm loading 170 gr cast with gas checks over 48 grains of WC 846 surplus. I mix a dab of alox in the wax. Kind of a hot load for cast, but it performs well

That's pretty much what the old Javelina lube consisted of.

[Thundermaker]

Automatic transmission fluid

Won't that give you the cancer?

[centershot]

Won't that give you the cancer?

You're not supposed to drink it, Thundermaker!

[Thundermaker]

You're not supposed to drink it, Thundermaker!

Probably isn't good to breathe the atomized fumes either, but i guess that's true of most things that come with firing a gun.

[kerplode]

Just wondering...

Is there a FPS limit for pure Beeswax Lube, with Cast Boolits?

Yes. 983,571,056 fps

[Smoke4320]

Whatever the speed of leading is in your gun