Has anyone ever tried lubing pellets, say with one of the dry lubes such as Hornady one shot lube/cleaner or one of the dry film teflon types.
Lubing Pellets
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Accupel pellets come pre-lubed with Napier Powerpell lubricant.
I've not noticed they are any different performance wise to H&N FTT.
I've not noticed they are any different performance wise to H&N FTT.
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Dry lubes are dirty and nasty and you breathe whatever you lube with so think about what you use.
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I find graphite , and moly both rather messy, due to black color. HBN, hexogonal boron nitride, is a white powder that is far cleaner. I have used it to tumble lube cast bullets, mixed it in oil and grease in high pressure applications.with good results. I don't see where dry lubs are dirty. I learned about the Hornandy one shot cleaner lube on rimfirecentral.com, in refrence to lubing the action of the Ruger 10/22. It makes it slick and being dry does not create a sludge with power residue. Even with nothing in an air gun you are still going to get very fine airborn lead particles, which I should think would be more hazardous than any dry lube.
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I know of some air gunners that use White Lightning which is a wax based bicycle chain lube. The wax is dissolved in a solvent which evaporates after application.
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I haven't noticed any difference in my shooting. I tend to wash and lube with Pledge just so when I handle the pellets my hands aren't black with the molding release agent and lead dust. Makes for a cleaner shoot. I lay out a couple paper towels in an old sheet pan, spray the towel down with the Pledge and dump a tin of pellets on top and roll them around. Not exactly scientific, but seem to keep my hands cleaner when shooting.
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I have been using white lightning chain lube (dry) on pellets for a few years now. Has been fine with pellets, slugs are a different story. Just got into slug shooting with a new airgun. Out of habit I lubed the slugs with the wax. accuracy went down the tubes. cleaned the stuff off and used silicone oil. Worked out.
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Years back I lubed some with some spray silicone, I did not notice any paticular change in accuracy, but did notice over a number of years the pellets did not darken as much from oxidation. I would think some type of lube would be good for the barrel, thinking that I always use a bullet lube when shooting cast bullets in my centerfire guns, especially the big black powder cartridges, knowing that there a big part of it's job is to keep black powder residue soft.
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I'm a fan of washing the pellets/slugs and coating them with a spray silicone lube, then allowing the silicone to dry and form a ulta thin film on the them. No major difference in performance, though I do get tons of shots in between cleaning.
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To me the JSB pellets which leave my fingertips dirty, has been the ones shooting the best. The black "gunk" usually doeas not hurt accuracy.
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I lube my pellets with M-Pro 7 or Hoppe's Elite gun oil, they are both the same made by Pantheon. It prevents leading in my air rifle and rimfire rifle, and helps prevent coppering in my centerfire rifles.
Hornady One Shot is a high pressure wax lube. While mainly made for resizing cases for reloading purposes, Hornady says you can spray your cartridges for better functioning in semi-auto firearms, and it certainly has done that for me. It can vastly increase case life in an FN FAL fired cartridge by preventing head separation by letting the entire case expand evenly in the chamber when firing, thus preventing massive stretching in the head area and preventing head separation. Cases coated with One Shot have far less neck trimming as the case returns to nearly original length as the head webbing area does not get overstretched. Never tried lubing pellets with it, however.
I might try spraying some pellets with One Shot and running them over the chronograph. However, it does increase case life in centerfire cartridges fired from loose chambered rifles.
Hornady One Shot is a high pressure wax lube. While mainly made for resizing cases for reloading purposes, Hornady says you can spray your cartridges for better functioning in semi-auto firearms, and it certainly has done that for me. It can vastly increase case life in an FN FAL fired cartridge by preventing head separation by letting the entire case expand evenly in the chamber when firing, thus preventing massive stretching in the head area and preventing head separation. Cases coated with One Shot have far less neck trimming as the case returns to nearly original length as the head webbing area does not get overstretched. Never tried lubing pellets with it, however.
I might try spraying some pellets with One Shot and running them over the chronograph. However, it does increase case life in centerfire cartridges fired from loose chambered rifles.
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I use a light application of Slick 50 One Lube on all the pellets I shoot in my field target rifles. After much accuracy testing I can definitely say it improves the accuracy in my guns and cuts down on the lead fouling. My suggestion is to try lubed vs. un-lubed pellets and see what you find as far as accuracy/cleaning in your gun. Good shooting.
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Ballistol, works for me. Wash a tin of pellets (using a kitchen sieve ) with (city water or distilled water). ( Some localities have hard water, some have very hard water,lots of minerals like iron and sulfur), in mild soap,rinse using city or distilled water, lay out pellets,(gently) on a sheet of paper towel,let dry, transfer pellets (gently) to a paper towel saturated with ballistol,let dry. Ballistol, pronounced as if saying ballistic with ol at the end instead if ic. My rifle barrels hardly ever have any fouling lead in them.
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+1 for ballistol, which is also what I clean my barrels with. I haven’t done any real investigation to see if it helps accuracy but it definitely helps to reduce fouling. I clean every 500 shots or so and I only see a few small specs of fouling on the first or second patch pull.
I also clean my pellets and slugs before they go in the gun, with dawn soap. Let dry and apply a light coating of ballistol then dry the slugs/pellets with a rag so only a small amount remains.
I have tried slick 50 one, and silicone oil. Nothing against those lubricants.
I’m done with graphite for anything gun related. Works great on door locks though!
I also clean my pellets and slugs before they go in the gun, with dawn soap. Let dry and apply a light coating of ballistol then dry the slugs/pellets with a rag so only a small amount remains.
I have tried slick 50 one, and silicone oil. Nothing against those lubricants.
I’m done with graphite for anything gun related. Works great on door locks though!
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A tip from the powder burner world. When using some of these lubes indoors, they can be quite strong smelling. Put the projectiles in a zip lock bag, spray or squirt the lube in and seal it up. Roll the projectiles in the juice and dump onto a paper towel. Works especially well for the spray lubes, when you stick the little straw in the bag and spray it. I've been using Hornady One Shot, have used Slick 50, but will give the Ballistol a try.
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I wash with dish soap and then lube my Crosman pellets with Pledge and it improves the performance quite a bit.
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I like washing in dish soap and throughly drying and then a very light coating of ballistol.JSB’s I have noticed are very dirty compared to the FX pellets I’ve used recently.
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