What the consenses on to lube or not to lube heavy slugs - 250 + grain
if you lube - with what and why ?
if you lube - with what and why ?
Big bore .45 +
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In my experience, a light coating of silicone on pellets and slugs keeps the barrel clean. By doing so, it improves accuracy and stabilizes velocity.
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however you want to do it, spray will make a mess .. i suggest patching the barrel with some 30w rc shock oil .. patch it then dry patch it a stroke or two .. after im done id use the same patch to wipe down the projectiles with, you dont want them dripping ...
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I never lube slugs myself. After 40 or 50 shots, I do clean the barrel. But it’s never very dirty. Now that’s with my castings. Most bought slugs come with some kind of coating. Just my experience. ymmv
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I shoot the NSA big bore slugs and lube all my lead in a pellet tin with Super lube Silicone oil by wetting the foam and simply rolling them around in the tin. Then I load them in the magazines wet. There's way more benefits doing it than not.
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I'm going to try a 45-45-10 mix of stuff that is popular with firearms and see what I get. The 10 is a solvent, so really carnuba and alox, supposed to dry and not be messy to touch, also not to build up in the barrel. We will see eventually (another story I'm not ready to tell here).
I also powder coat which on a good barrel works really well. On a barrel bored out by beavers with dull teeth, nothing helps. Been there, fought that, eventually polished the barrel enough to change the size 0.001 inch and bought a new barrel. Now I'm super picky about the condition of the barrels, everyone should own a cheap borescope, and everyone should hold manufacturers to task on quality. But that's a thread I don't want to bring here (yet).
If the lube works, I may stop powder coating because of the time it takes, at least 20 minutes per batch, but more like 45 with the shaking and oven preheat. A PID control might reduce some time, but still probably 30 minutes per batch, and my batches are around 60 in 0.510 and close to 80 in .357.
I also powder coat which on a good barrel works really well. On a barrel bored out by beavers with dull teeth, nothing helps. Been there, fought that, eventually polished the barrel enough to change the size 0.001 inch and bought a new barrel. Now I'm super picky about the condition of the barrels, everyone should own a cheap borescope, and everyone should hold manufacturers to task on quality. But that's a thread I don't want to bring here (yet).
If the lube works, I may stop powder coating because of the time it takes, at least 20 minutes per batch, but more like 45 with the shaking and oven preheat. A PID control might reduce some time, but still probably 30 minutes per batch, and my batches are around 60 in 0.510 and close to 80 in .357.
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