What's Your Fav (Best) Cast Boolet Lube?

[fshfindr]

What is your favorite (best) cast boolet lube?

1. 45,45,10 (Alox, Johnsons Paste Wax, Mineral Spirits)
2. Alox & Beeswax
3. Johnson's Paste Wax only
4. Alox by itself
5. Alox plus mineral spirits
6. NRA Lube
7. BAC
8. Rooster Red
9. Lyman Lube
10. RCBS lube

As of 3.15. 14 it looks like mixtures with Alox wins. BAC alone gets more votes then the others.
Thanks. For me it's 45,45,10.

*Other Please explain

 

[fshfindr]

Most of them work well and prevent lead. JPW is the easiest to apply, cleanest and best looking.

 

[Nick B]

LBT Blue . I tried and tested lots of them and the LBT( Lead Bullet Technology ) was the best .

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

For lots of years I've been using my own concoction of 60% commode seal & 40% canning wax......Melted-mixed and poured into my RCBS sizer. Works as good or better than anything I can buy. I use in all pistol calibers from 32>357>44m>45acp&LC. In rifles 444/30-30/7.62x39 & 30-06(garand). I don't having any leading problems.

 

[epj]

BAC, if that's the red stuff I get from the guy over on the cast boolit forum. Works great, but needs heat.

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

Hi-tek coating, no messy dies, no smoke, no lead, no need to worry about lube falling out of the grooves, and comes in cool colors.

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[Moonman]

*****OTHER******
I've been using POLYMER COATINGS from HI-TEK in Australia.

Competitive Shooters there have been using this stuff for YEARS.

WAS DEVELOPED FOR HANDGUNS.

The COATING is the LUBE,
NO bullet LUBE GROOVES are even needed,
or it can be used with regular lube grooves or tumble ones.
No Leading, Clean Barrels, No Messy Dies.

Coatings for self application are available OR ALSO COMMERCIALLY COATED BULLETS.

Presently I know SNS Casting, Gateway Bullets, Bayou Bullets and

RECENTLY I GUESS BLACK & BLUE INTERNATIONAL has switched to
using this coating on their cast bullets.

I can and do coat my own castings presently, my materials came from Bayou Bullets.

The coating COMPLETELY ENCAPSULATES the lead, NICE FOR INDOORS OR CERTAIN OUTDOOR RANGES BANNING EXPOSED LEAD.

A 132 page thread exists on HI-TEK Coatings over at CAST BOOLITS SITE.

 

[noylj]

If one feels the need to size their cast bullets and wants to use a LubriSizer, than Carnauba Red or BAC. If one wants to use as-cast bullets, then LLA works every time. 45/45/10 is now available commercially and well worth trying.
I found, back in the '70s, that my guns shot more accurately with as-cast bullets, so I used over-sized sizing dies for a while, and then pan lubing, but I have used LLA for a couple of decades now, I think.

 

[Green Frog]

I voted for Alox & Beeswax, the old Tamarac lube which I use with my Lyman Lubri-sizer, but if I'm hanging out at Dale53's place, I use his Carnauba Red in a heated Star Sizer. With big bullets I use my homemade mix of Emmert's modified with lanolin, and for schuetzen bullets I use a lube pump with Charlie Dell's old #36 lube.

"To every thing, there is a season, and to every bullet, there is a lube!"

Froggie

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I use SPG in black powder and smokeless rounds with complete satisfaction. Works great with black powder handgun loads and can get to near 1,400 fps with smokeless with no leading and good accuracy. However I've been hearing good things about BAC and should give it a try one of these days.

 

[bedbugbilly]

A little Alox and Paste Wax - heat bullets with hair dryer, tumble lube in a tupperware container . . . set on bases overnight . . . good to go. Doesn't make any difference if conventional lube grooves or TL design. No problems at all with my 39s and 0mm - SWC, WC, TC, 2 different RN.

The tricks not to overdo the Alox. I've had no problems with "stickiness" of the Alox after overnight drying. No leading problems in any of my handguns. Nice and simple . . . .

 

[6thtexas]

I generally stick with Alox, as I shoot a lot of cast bullets in a rifle and that is what is in the machine. I used to use a lot of the old Lyman black lube when I just cast for handguns.
For my blackpowder cartridge guns I use 1/3 beeswax, and 2/3 pure neatsfoot oil. It works very well and I have read that what the Sharps Rifle Co. lubed their cartridges with.

 

[aviserated]

Lately i have been using LBT Soft Blue and SPG. These flow thru Lubrasizer very easy and leave a good lubestar at muzzle.

 

[fredj338]

I use a Star luber/sizer, I like White Labels Carnuba Red, then Randy Rat's (cast boolit forum) TAC. Both need a little heat & when back to normal temps, are not sticky, I hate sticky alox base lubes.

 

[novalty]

I have Randy Rat's Tac 1, and so far like it a lot better than the Lyman stuff I was using before.

 

[Maximumbob54]

I voted 45/45/10 and BAC as that's what I used to use.

These days I just powder coat them:

 

[Moonman]

I used to use a VARIETY of Lubes from ALOX/Mineral Spirits, Xlox 45/45/10, BAC, Thompson's,

I now just HI-TEC polymer coat.

I also just ordered some of SNS CASTINGS "NEW CAST 9MM COATED 124 GR WITH NO LUBE GROOVES".

Lube grooves are NOT needed with the POLYMER HI-TEK coating , SO WHY HAVE THEM, more bearing surface without them.

If I like them I MAY ORDER A 124 9MM NO LUBE GROOVE MOLD from Accurate Molds.

 

[Maximumbob54]

I keep thinking of trying to order a mold with no lube grooves only because I bet they would just about jump out the mold. But I already have so many molds.... But I don't have that one....

 

[mtgianni]

Other, I generally use Felix lube with a mixture thrown in now and then of home made speed green.

 

[marlin39a]

* Other. I use White Label Lube, Carnauba Red for pretty much everything. Requires heat, but stays put. LsStuff-White Label Lube - Cast Bullet Lube