Is lubricating pellets necessary? I've read that people do it but am not sure if it's necessary or if it's better for certain sizes.
Is lubricating pellets necessary?
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I am going to find out. I used to clean lube sort all that and I stopped .
I buy JSB pellets not crosman premier and stopped doing anything but shooting.
Now I’m in a position that has me shooting field target three or four days a week. I am cranking through some pellets. So I bought a bottle of oil. And I put a new tin of pellets in a bag with six drops of oil. Rolled them around and returned them to the tin.
Now I am going to shoot both a new tin with oil and a new tin without . Both from the same batch. Let’s see what happens.
I buy JSB pellets not crosman premier and stopped doing anything but shooting.
Now I’m in a position that has me shooting field target three or four days a week. I am cranking through some pellets. So I bought a bottle of oil. And I put a new tin of pellets in a bag with six drops of oil. Rolled them around and returned them to the tin.
Now I am going to shoot both a new tin with oil and a new tin without . Both from the same batch. Let’s see what happens.
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Above 950 fps youll get fouling you need to clean out. Lube reduces this fouling. Below 950 fps you do not get lead fouling.
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Blackpowder lead rounds have a grease groove. Copper jackets were needed for higher FPS without ridiculous fouling.
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Interesting. I don't recall us giving Napier permission to use us as a reference or to use our logo. Especially since we do NOT recommend lubing pellets.
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A little trademark infringement. Sounds like you have royalties or a lawsuit in your future.
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I like your idea . Six drops seems excessive to me . when i used to doo all that i used a microfiber cloth with a small squirt of lemon pledge on it to roll the pellets around in . My results were = no difference shooting,, but cleaner finger tips .
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No, we usually send our esteemed colleagues Alexei, Sergey, and Igor. They have a very, uh, "convincing" way of pointing out misconduct.A little trademark infringement. Sounds like you have royalties or a lawsuit in your future.
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I have a modified HFT 500.
Now that I have my own field target course permanently set up. I go to the range with what ever I’m up to. And always take my HFT and do a loop. This was last Sundays 84 shot loop. I missed six shots. But I am trying to hit the same spot on the kill zone paddle. So I can really how I’m doing.
Plus I am building a 100 yard benchrest lane. That will be finally set up this weekend .
And Sunday is a field target competition. So by Monday I should be able to see if there is any perceived difference or can I shoot an 84 shot loop and only miss three shots. That would be the 50% increase in accuracy that I am fully expecting based on the advertising .
Now that I have my own field target course permanently set up. I go to the range with what ever I’m up to. And always take my HFT and do a loop. This was last Sundays 84 shot loop. I missed six shots. But I am trying to hit the same spot on the kill zone paddle. So I can really how I’m doing.
Plus I am building a 100 yard benchrest lane. That will be finally set up this weekend .
And Sunday is a field target competition. So by Monday I should be able to see if there is any perceived difference or can I shoot an 84 shot loop and only miss three shots. That would be the 50% increase in accuracy that I am fully expecting based on the advertising .
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with everything that has been written and read here on AGN , Yes i still tried it myself . Best of luck . Let us know if you perceive any recordable difference .
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It will probably depend on the wind, sun, temp, Caffeine and bugs as to weather the lube makes any difference.
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I went out today and was shooting a 6 mm rod from 50 yards from a bench with my HFT-500 the 6mm rod is the smallest of targets in the line from 50mm on down .
Then I was shooting a paper target from 45 yards for groups of ten shots.
I have to laugh . The lube did better I guess.
Not scientific but on the 6 mm rod I could hit it one in three times. I could see it going past the target but with the lube when it hit it hit and spun the target. Without the lube it more likely nicked the target more than a good hit.
On paper it’s a dime size group with both. But as the wind picked up the lubed moved just a little left. The non lubed had a flyer or it was me. That’s just the first test. I’m going to keep shooting them side by side with the dry pellets.
Then I was shooting a paper target from 45 yards for groups of ten shots.
I have to laugh . The lube did better I guess.
Not scientific but on the 6 mm rod I could hit it one in three times. I could see it going past the target but with the lube when it hit it hit and spun the target. Without the lube it more likely nicked the target more than a good hit.
On paper it’s a dime size group with both. But as the wind picked up the lubed moved just a little left. The non lubed had a flyer or it was me. That’s just the first test. I’m going to keep shooting them side by side with the dry pellets.
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I don't know if it proves anything, but I always used to wash and lube my Crosman Premier Hollow Point (CPHP's) in batches of about 5 or 6 tins. Recently I got lazy and only washed them.
So I opened a new tin the other day, one of the batch that was only washed. When I started shooting out of every magazine of 12 I had 4 or 5 flyers.
My first thought was that this must have been a bad tin, but that could not be the case as I always put all the pellets of 5 or 6 tins in a finshing net and wash them and when dried I distribute them by weight back in the tins. So they are mixed.
As I hadn't changed anything other than omitting the lube, I lubed the pellets (just 2 light mists of the Pellgun stuff in a spraybottle) and turned the tin a couple of times to get it spread to see if it would make any difference...
And boy did it change the outcome for the good!
The first magazine after the lubing had 1 flyer, the rest of the magazines after that had ZERO fliers! This with my .22 BRK Pathfinder XR.
So draw your own conclusion, but for me CPHPs are performing WAY better in my Pathfinder after lubing!
Now some pellets are performing great as they are and do not neccesarily need a treatment (JSB comes to mind, and H&N advising themselves against(!) lubing as written in a post above) but for CPHPs I am a believer!
My 2cts...
So I opened a new tin the other day, one of the batch that was only washed. When I started shooting out of every magazine of 12 I had 4 or 5 flyers.
My first thought was that this must have been a bad tin, but that could not be the case as I always put all the pellets of 5 or 6 tins in a finshing net and wash them and when dried I distribute them by weight back in the tins. So they are mixed.
As I hadn't changed anything other than omitting the lube, I lubed the pellets (just 2 light mists of the Pellgun stuff in a spraybottle) and turned the tin a couple of times to get it spread to see if it would make any difference...
And boy did it change the outcome for the good!
The first magazine after the lubing had 1 flyer, the rest of the magazines after that had ZERO fliers! This with my .22 BRK Pathfinder XR.
So draw your own conclusion, but for me CPHPs are performing WAY better in my Pathfinder after lubing!
Now some pellets are performing great as they are and do not neccesarily need a treatment (JSB comes to mind, and H&N advising themselves against(!) lubing as written in a post above) but for CPHPs I am a believer!
My 2cts...
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AOA used to send out a pamphlet with every gun that suggested using lube anytime you exceeded 900 FPS.
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