ALL my guns are single shot, tray or break barrel . I hand load every pellet ,so washing is mostly what i do . I only sort ,lube, size for competition's weather at home or at an FT or BR comp.
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Pellet Wash and Lube
- Thread starter MikeAllen
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If you are shooting on paper and are looking for that elusive hole in hole..wash and separate is a must ,if you are hunting no need. I shoot delta wolf .25 …I have proved it to myself…but yes it takes time to wash , then weigh , lube…very time consuming
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I've started cleaning and sorting pellets by weight - and recently sorting by head size within each weight - don't have results yet. As far as cleaning I picked up an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner at a garage sale and have been using it for washing pellets. It easily hold one tin of .25 caliber pellets. I put water in it and give it a spray of simple green cleaner and let it do the work. The result is a fair amount of lead sludge and particles and it's easy to do while I'm doing other things. Haven't been lubing - what are you using for pellet lube?
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Wow jewelry cleaner never thought of that ? Great idea! Napier power lube couple of drops in a zip lock bag and work around little goes a long way. Since I got delta wolf and it has a chrono at the end of barrel I don’t lube any more but a wash and sort for sure!!!!!!!!
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pellet lube works good! It just kinda will fog up my chrono at end of barrel, but before delta wolf…..lube for sure
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Don’t let anyone tell you washing weighing and lubing won’t get you closer on paper it will if you are looking for every little bit you can
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I have polished the barrel and yes, I'm willing to do every little bit I can to work toward the elusive hole-in-hole group! I've actually shot hole-in-hole before, just not as consistently as I'd like. 
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Do you find Napier Power Lube to be superior to other things like Ballistol, Blaster Dry Lube Teflon spray, Pledge, etc? Have you tried these others?
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Amazon or ebay and a bunch of isopropyl alcohol. I bought one, haven't seen a need to use it yet. I may have to my last tin of pellets had some little bits in it for the first time ever. I lube with a microfiber towel moist with beeswax furniture polish.
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its nice not to worry about air and a bunch of o-rings.......they make some really nice break barrels that are dead on every shot!....i am just bit by the pcp bug and cant shake it
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That rabbit hole is endless and there is no escape, even the red pill doesn't help. So says Alice.
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We have a funny trick that we love to do with airgun newbies:
I grease up the pellet with WD40, stuff it into a break barrel Gamo Varmint, and shoot.
The oil burns up and smoke will come out; you'll see even more when the barrel cracks open.
Works very well but only with that break barrel, not sure why.
I grease up the pellet with WD40, stuff it into a break barrel Gamo Varmint, and shoot.
The oil burns up and smoke will come out; you'll see even more when the barrel cracks open.
Works very well but only with that break barrel, not sure why.
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Ha! You asked this back in March........but no. I see no issues of build up in the barrel what so ever. As far as cleaning the barrels, I will usually clean the barrel every 300 - 400 pellets or so I guess. But not really due to any degradation of accuracy. It's just something that I do.
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Thanks! I actually contacted the company that makes the Blaster dry lube and they assured me of the same. Also said any possible Teflon residue would be removed with regular cleaning - which I don’t do often!
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