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Thread: Well I'll be a Son of a Gun.....

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    Boolit Buddy
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    Well I'll be a Son of a Gun.....

    So I picked up an extra Lyman 450 at a yard sale a while back. It had not been used in forever and a day. I decided to clean it out last weekend. It was almost full of what appeard to be very old NRA 50/50 lube so I caredully disassembeld and scooped out what I could. The old lube went into a dish on the workbench. I boiled the sizer and reassembed it works like a champ.

    Now...the point of my story: I was getting ready to load a few .30-06 shells for testing and I looked high and low...where the !#@#& <? is my case lube? Scanning my bench my eyes come to rest on the dish of ancient nastiness I had scopped out of the Lyman 450. I took a shop towel, massaged some of the lube into it and proceeded to wipe each case. They sized with nearly no effort at all! Clean, easy and a quick wipe with mineral spirits (standard practice for me anyway) left the cases clean and shiny.

    Hmmmmm....
    Shoot Straight...Shoot Safe
    DrNick

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    Boolit Master
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    Necessity is the mother of invention....

    Congratulations on your find, and on your resourcefulness in using the old lube to get your 30'06's lubed!

    Happy Shootin'! -Tom

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    Boolit Bub
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    I often use Felix lube for case sizing.

    Similarly, when I am running bullets through a push-thru sizer prior to heat treating, just a trace of Felix lube makes the process much easier.

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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
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