YEP, STILL UP AND KICKING, DUTCH. IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THE OLD MLML DAYS, HASN'T IT? THANKS FOR THE KIND OFFER OF YOUR BOOK, BUT I ALREADY HAVE A COPY.
I UNDERSTAND YOUR THINKING ON THE "TOO SLICK" LUBE", BUT I THINK YOU ARE NOT CONSIDERING SOMETHING IMPORTANT, INERTIA...A BODY AT REST TENDS TO STAY AT REST. THAT BALL IS NOT FREE TO JUST SLIP UP THE BORE AS SOON AS THE PRESSURE STARTS RISING, IT HAPPENS TOO QUICKLY. CONSIDER THE FACT THAT HOLLOW-BASE CONICALS, WHICH ARE NOT TOUCHING THE BORE TIGHTLY, IF AT ALL... VERY LOW FRICTION, NO LUBE..., RESIST MOVING SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE DEFORMED, THE LEAD BECOMES PLASTIC AND FLOWS. THE PRESSURE GETS SO HIGH SO QUICKLY THAT THE SKIRTS FLARE AND THE WHOLE BODY IS SHORTENED. THE BACK END OF THE BULLET BEGINS MOVING BEFORE THE FRONT END, BECAUSE THE CONICAL IS LOCKED IN PLACE BY INERTIA.
THE EFFECT IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE WEIGHT OF THE BULLET AND THE SPEED OF THE EXPLOSION, SO IT HAPPENS TO ROUND BALLS, TOO, JUST NOT SO MUCH.
ALL THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME WE FIRE THE GUN. I DON'T THINK SLICKNESS OF THE LUBE HAS A DIRECT EFFECT ON ACCURACY.
SPENCE
MY THINKING about too slick patch lube may be at major fault but it has been my attempt to explain why the less slick my patch lube is the tighter the groups become.
You know my method of getting water soluble oil and water mix to be lighter and lighter as you add water.
Well in my experimenting showed me the 5 to 1 mix gave me such a loose group I almost discontinued the effort. Being cheap ******* I couldn't waste my already prepared strips of diminishing oil I continued and the 6 to 1 was still loose then the 6 to one showed a definite tightening up. and the 7 to one was pretty damn good. and the 8 to one was a delight. 9 to ones difficult to load and I am sure the balls were flat faced so I got three of the five about as good as the 8 to one and two beginning to spread out..
The reason I had all those different mixes was because in the preparation of the strips we strip the stip of excess fluid. Everybody wouldn't do it the same as everyone else but all that person's strips would probably be very much alike.
A Person who stripped the excess fluid with a tighter grasp would remove more of the fluid than a person with a looser grasp. That is a variable I cannot control.
People reporting back had the hoped for results with different mixes.. Generally 10% were pleased with the 6 t0 mix.About 80% settled on the 7 to1 mix
And about 10% liked the 8 to 1 mix.
These figures are not exact just my perceived averages over a period of time.
When water soluble oil became scarce, A subscriber wrote me that he got the same results using Ballistic which proved to be the case.
Some recent experimenters report having good results using castor oil and alcohol. I don't think the castor oil blends with the alcohol in the same way as the earlier ingredients but they tell me that they prepare the mix in the same way but shake it violently and while the mix is still dispersed proceed with the process.
I am so impaired visually that I can no longer read most texts and my rifles are now in KC with my grandson whose main interest is sail boating. So I can no longer doanyexperimentations.
Not being able to read much of anything I am learning about the wonderful world of the illiterate. My daughter stumbled onto the "voiceover" ability of my computer so I select the text and the computer reads the printed material with some odd pronunciations but enough that there is a questionable section spoken I can explore the text with my 3 pound magnifying glass. So forgive any creative spelling and absent space between words in the above..
It is a delight to return to the BP world and I thank you for the opportunity. There is NOT ONE SINGLE ML PERSON IN THE ST LOUIS AREA I cantle to about my hoppy and the fun of coaching and experimentation.
Merry Christmas and hopefully an Adequate New Year.
Dutch
