To lube or not to lube

Excellent shooting Doc! I too have shot my tightest groups at 50yds with my MMHF barreled Mrod. Out of all the high end guns that was still my best lol the FP-10 works great for these barrels. I shall be receiving my WARP with the same barrel this week and I got some pellets to lube before it gets here! How did you go about lubing them? Just some drops in the tin and move them around?

Nice. I used to put some in the tin and move them around with my fingers but think I'm going to put them in a Ziploc and do them that way.

I put 4 or 5 drops of FP 10 on the little white pad that is in the tin, then i squeeze the pad a few times to distribute the drops on the pad and pour in enough pellets to almost cover the pad, gently push them around a little.

I do the same with my other pellet honey, stp and hopps oil for the other guns.

Every so often, i'll add a few drops and do the same process.

Have any of you or anybody that is reading this for that matter had any success when they lubed their pellets for their Springer?

"NMshooter"All you can do is try. From what I have read, it's the Hammer-forged barrel that lubing helps the most. It's easy enough for a springer to give it a try. Let us know what you experience!

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Debating on which lube to give a try

Nice groups Doc. The 22cal Marauder I use to own had one of Jims barrels in it along with a lightened hammer and regulator. It shot excellent also. I used White Lightning bicycle chain lube as my preferred pellet lube. Kinda wished I'd kept it sometimes.
Jimmy

The only way to find out if your rifle likes lubed pellets is to try it out. I just brought out an old Career 710 Tanker that is around 15 or more years old and cleaned the barrel and went about shooting some groups. It was throwing pellets five to six inches left and right and up and down. I thought to myself this rifle shot better than this years ago. I went about checking my scope screws, stock screws etc, Then I remembered I used lubed pellets in this rifle. I added a few drops of FP-10 to a pellet tin foam liner and squeezed the excess out and lightly rubbed the pellet on the foam. I shot a few groups at fifty yards and was getting groups around one inch. I also had a AF Condor that I started out using lubed pellets and was getting poor groups. I thought I was getting clipping with an add on moderator but found no evidence. I decided to clean the barrel and went with no lube and the accuracy came back. So in the long run I try lubed and unlubed pellets in my rifles to see what works best. You do have to make sure you don't use excess lube when coating pellets because that can cause bad accuracy issues too. Bill

I first started lubing my pellets a couple decades ago after having "dry cpls" foul a R9 bore so tightly at the choke that the rifling literally disappeared and no amount of pulled patches would clear the fouling. The fouling was removed with a Hoppes#9 soaking and a brass brush and the accuracy returned so the search was made to find a way to keep "CPL fouling" from "soldering" to the bore. FP10 was mentioned as a pellet lube in a few replies but it didn't work out very well when tried it decades ago. The FP10 caused the treated CPLs to corrode after placing in a leather pellet pouch unless promptly shot and this corrosion was of a "gummy greasy grey coating" which tended to goop up the bore when shooting. LOL, at least the "gummy greasy grey coating" was easily removed from the bore with a few pulled patches but I started looking for a lube that didn't "goop up" my CPLs.

I starting lubing my Crosman pellets with Slick50 One Lube from the aerosol can and the stuff worked perfectly without "gumming up" lubed pellets after storage for a while. LOL....I'm still lubing CPLs from the same aerosol can I bought at an ACE home center in West Virginia over 20 years ago since so little is used for each lubing. The price on this can gives an indication of how long ago that was.......

Lubing my CPLs with OneLube before shooting allows me to shoot a 1250 count box of CPLs without noticing an "accuracy drop off" even after storing for months at a time.

The lubing process needs to be done in such a way that no OneLube gets into the pellet skirts because the stuff will diesel. What I do is to spritz a tiny bit of lube in a dedicated container, spread the lube around into a thin film, dump in a box of CPLs, gently stir them with my finger to transfer a film of lube onto the pellet rifling surfaces. Here is my current "dedicated pan"..........


Anywhoo....for me and my .177 HW95 or .177 R9 the pellet lubing didn't affect the velocity or accuracy, it only extended the cleaning interval and made bore cleaning easier, however lubing didn't hurt accuracy either!
The HW95 at 50 yards shot sitting on a bucket resting the gun on cross sticks.......



The R9 at 50 yards shot sitting on a bucket resting the gun on cross sticks..........

15 out of 20 CPLs through a 3/4" diameter killzone.......