Pellets from the factory have a coating of lube or wax or some type of material used in the manufacturing process. Once you wash this off, they will oxidize rather quickly. I usually lube them right after drying with a very light spray of Ballistol or a couple of drops of Napier pellet lube per tin. Tumble them around a bit to spread the lube. DO NOT overlube.
Exactly.. some oxidize pretty quick. Now maybe my hard water has some to do with n that but it dont take long to notice turning gray .. but its normally wash, dry, lube one right behind the other.
I use beeswax furniture polish, moisten a micro fiber towel with it and dump some on and rub them lightly
I bought a ultrasonic cleaner from Amazon, it's small, quarts of alcohol, I ran for 90 seconds, agitated, ran again for 90 seconds, then removed, let them dry, then a microfiber towel moistened with beeswax furniture polish/cleaner.
Some people don't wash your lube their pellets, but most of us do. I follow a similar step to the comment above yours. Washing them will help remove small lead shavings lead dust and particles that are left over from manufacturing. I wash them in hot water and Dawn dish detergent swishing them around in my hand and then rinsing them in hot water. Then I put a air dryer to them for a minute or so just to dry them off and coat them with a dry lube such as three in one dry lock lube or Houdini dry lube which they sell at walmart. Whatever secret sauce you choose is on you as there are many methods out there. But it's definitely worth washing them to get the excess lead off.
