Lube for hunting

Just got off the phone with my son. He's doing another pesting hunt for pigeons. Got about 300 from yesterday evening and dark plus today. But he is trying lubes(several) on targets and now on birds. Thinks he has gained from 70 to 90 yards good kill grouping. Using WD-40 silicone seems to do the trick. Says he may have a little too much on as it gathers at the stripper. He and his GF have twin guns Brocock Bantoms in .22 with NightForce scopes with green light at dark. Said there are clouds of starling in the evening but they don't like the green light.
 
Kind of a 'so what' on the lube wetting the stripper. If the accuracy is better, let it drip, 😀

Airguns! Some are so picky and some will shoot anything. Some want lots of lube and some barely need any at all (or with pellets, maybe none at all)

I recently pulled a rifle out if the rack to loan to a friend and it had always been a good pellet shooter and one that never needed cleaning much. A .25 Marauder with all Hill internals and tuned for 46 FPE using JSB 33gr.... Had an 'old' 1/2 gal of gasoline for my weed eater with the synthetic two cycle oil at 1:30 mix so I dumped 300 of the pellets I was giving him in a bowl and covered them with the gas (on the driveway). Swirled it around and strained/drained it onto a fireant mound in the yard - let them dry til the next day. Just a faint trace of oil on them. They are shooting the best accuracy that rifle has ever shot. Note that it's not a new lot of pellets, this is compaired to some of the same lot shot in that rifle previously.