bullet lube

[1stTexas]

For live fire shooters, be advised....DO NOT use Lee Liquid Alox for black powder bullet lube unless you want tar like mess in your barrel, breech. nipple and touch hole. After it is fired with black powder it becomes a tar like substance and nothing will dissolve that stuff except laquer thinner and you know what that can do to a rifle stock. Some retailers who sell black powder supplies actually offer it . After I purchased a few 3 oz. bottles, I noticed that it is petroleum product and is fine to use with reloading and firing conventional bullets with smokeless powder. After I used it with my new P.53 Enfield, I read where a company representative said it should not be used with black powder.

I now use melted S.P.G. as a dip-lube for minie ball lubricant. Pritchett style minie balls without grease grooves don't like it because the S.P.G. wax like lube gets pushed off the skirts of the minie ball when you ram it down. It is a wax like lubricant that is hot water soluable and cleans up with other black powder solvents. I am new at black powder rifle shooting and I am learning as I shoot or the hard way.

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

Hmmmmmmm. ;-) :-)

Didn't some heretic post on another thread on 7/14/07?:

"Some petroleum-based products combine highy unfavorably with the components of black powder and black powder residue. Some creating an indestructable tar like substance lads report is next to impossible to clean away."

:-)

Curt-Heinrich Schmidt