Bullet Lube Compendium

[fiver]

it's just a partial list of the stuff there.
69 pages worth.
I just didn't see anything new or ground breaking than the same old standard lubes with little tweaks here and there to improve the bore condition.
my simple lube would pretty much covers the whole article and you can make a batch at home in like 15 minutes.

 

[Josh]

it's just a partial list of the stuff there.
69 pages worth.
I just didn't see anything new or ground breaking than the same old standard lubes with little tweaks here and there to improve the bore condition.
my simple lube would pretty much covers the whole article and you can make a batch at home in like 15 minutes.

I am a firm believer in your simple lube, so far it has done well for myself and 3 others. I have it saved as a permanent link in my phone.

 

[KHornet]

Interesting! I will stay with BR, BLL, and
Brads green stuff.

Paul

 

[fiver]

I have a batch of simple lube V-2 sitting there waiting for the homo-lube to run out.
I might just run out the last of the homo lube in the middle star and start using it again since I have a bunch of 38's I need to get size- lubed and save the homo-lube for the next run of 9mm's [I need to get done some time in the next 5-6 years.]

I went back Friday and re-shot some of the old wet homo just to reconfirm the groups in the 9mm again but I took the S.I.L. along and had him duplicate the test again.
this whole test is just reconfirming what Felix always said about a lubes viscosity at a given temperature being important.
I just went too far to the wet side at the beginning.

I also run across a batch of 44 mag rounds segregated in a small zip top bag with no label on it.
at the first trigger pull both me and the S.I.L. wrinkled up our noses and he started to say something when I cut him off and said 'it's already got a nick-name.'
yep found an old batch of 'asscrack sweat lube' it did put the first 6 holes in the 2x4 I was shooting at all on one side and about 1" high.
GOD I hope that's the last of it. [shoots good though]

 

[9.3X62AL]

Bullet lube odors.....ah, yes. I made the mistake of shooting a bunch of rounds lubed with beeswax/Alox some years back in the eastern desert, right about the time that "Africanized" honeybees started roaming north from Mexico. There must have been a hive or colony fairly close by, because they were THICK in a very short time span--and none too happy about the use I put the beeswax to, I might add. Only got three stings, and I set a new record for breaking down a shooting site and getting it loaded in the back of the truck. I escaped with the camper shell window left open as I drove out to the freeway on the graded power line road, and by the time I got to Indio the bees had left the camper shell. Now--before getting the tables, chairs, targets etc. set up--I crank off a couple cylinders- or magazines-full and assess the local response for about 5-10 minutes. More than once, I have been obliged to move off elsewhere by a buzzy reception committee/scout team. Damn things.

 

[Pistolero]

IME, stuff from Africa is just hard and mean. Their thorny trees, their tough animals, seems like every single plant
will just rip you to shreds. Their snakes are super nasty, and seems like even their bees have a serious
attitude. Of course, we do have some pretty thorny trees around here - black locust would be really bad to
fall against.

Bill

 

[KHornet]

Sure cant argue with you Bill about hard and mean in Africa (depending on where you are).
Not bad at all in Numabia, but super bad in Zimbabwe. Really tough when wearing shorts.
Also correct on black locust. Cut many down many years back for fence posts. Those thorns
are works of the devil.

Paul

 

[Pistolero]

After you have hunted Africa, you really learn that stuff in Africa is really
different. A crawling stalk for a hundred yards or so is just a blast.

NOT.

After seeing Mamba trails, and crawling over thorns of every kind (the hooked
"wait a bit" thorns are especially "nice", try to bull through that and you lose
chunks) you get a different outlook on stalking there versus stalking here.
And our bees don't come looking for us, for gosh sakes!

Bill