home bullet lube and lyman maxi-ball

[lapua]

anyone made home bullet lube for lead cast bullets
anyone made and uses maxi-ball 50cal bullets by lyman
anyone uses swiss 3fg load data required.


Lapua

 

[bob1961]

look up stumpkiller's stuff he makes...........bob

 

[merdean]

Back in the olden days when I used to have some pisolivers and other stuff, I made a lube for bullets with 1lb parafin wax, 1lb petrolium jelly and a teaspoon of case lube. It worked pretty good. Might even make a good patch lube with a little more of the jelly. Just drop the case lube. It might make a decent lube for Maxi-Balls as long as the sun don't shine on it. Never tried it for muzzlestuffers. I think moose snot or moose milk would be better. Check out the other threads for recipes.

 

[microbe1]

I use a recipe from my town's local guru... I made a HUGE batch so I have plenty and would have to look up the exact percentages accurately...but ? beeswax 50%, Crisco 45%[When I found the Aussie equivalent], Olive Oil 5% and about 10 drops of Oil of Wintergreen...so it smells like a very popular commercial brand...I didn't worry about the yellow colour...that'd be copyright breach???
If it's for a warmer climate... I'd leave the olive oil out.
I tried a mix of vaseline and beeswax... but I seemed to have terrible fouling?
I use the above for patch lube, minie lube, pistol cylinder lube... I confess however... using olive oil to soak patches in seems ok too?
When I first started in BP... I lubed some minies for my Parker Hale 1853 Enfield with margarine straight out of the fridge and into combusible paper cartridges as described in the Dixie Gunworks Catalogue's fantastic ref. section up the back... all went well until the Sun came out...my cartridge box beheld a rather gooey mess indeed!!!
Yeah OK... you all knew that would happen... I can laugh now!!
The really annoying thing about ML shooting... which is it's attraction also, is the annoying lack of concistency in the science..what works for one, may not work for another? Deucedly annoying....if it wasn't for the 'almost thru' dent in a 1/4 inch chequerplate gong I had made...that I showed my blasphemous gunsmith after he called me a victim for buying a DGW Tennessee flinter... the smile fell from his face!! OK... he can outrange me by a long shot with his modern stuff...but there's something about the Fsh - BOOM!!!... one of the passing fad brass cartridge ensembles can never give!!!
See ya, Al