My new 45 cal 230 grain truncated cone mold

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Yours are more than a little dark! Look back at my photo in answer#7 of this post. On the left is a box of Lee 340 gr plain base rifle bullets in 45 cal. Those dark bullets were tumble lubed twice with straight Lee Liquid Alox and they are definitely over lubed. The box on the right is RD 350 gr gas checked bullets. They were tumble lubed once before size/check and twice after...they are lubed correctly with 45:45:10 three times.

Your lube is on so thick that I am concerned you will put yourself on the list of people that can't stand tumble lube, call it very messy to work with, various other nasty names and complain that it slops up their bullet seating dies and smokes so bad when shooting that their vision is blocked!!!!!! You easily have 20 times too much tumble lube on your bullets. Tumble lube is a surface coating. There is no use to keep putting on so much that it fills the lube grooves of bullets. That will not make it work better.

Either formula of tumble lube needs to be the thickness of Hershey syrup, thinner than honey and easily pourable when the consistency is correct at room temperature.. You can add mineral spirits at any time to thin tumble lube and that will not harm it. Get the consistency corrected every time you use it as necessary.

I warm bullets in a brownie pan 5 minutes on warm in the kitchen oven for example. They don't get too hot to touch. I warm the tumble lube in a 4 oz bottle 30 seconds two times in my micro-wave oven. it gets very warm but not too hot to touch.

200 of your warmed pistol bullets in half of a square plastic 1/2 gallon milk carton needs about 1/3 teaspoon or less warmed  tumble lube added before tilting the carton 45 degrees and rotating  for 1 minute by hand. Gently and slowly dump lubed bullets onto wax paper and walk away. the bullets will be ready to load or ready to apply another coat of lube and  be loaded in 10 minutes if you have used warmed bullets and warmed 45:45:10.  Any longer than 10 minutes to dry and either you put way too much on, your lube was too thick or your bullets and lube were not warm enough.

Your bullets look like the lube is way too thick, you put way too much on and it was not warmed lube or warmed bullets.

45:45:10 dries nearly clear with 3 coats done properly as shown in my picture in answer #7 on the previous page showing the RD 350 FNGC bullets lubed 3x and ready to load. I'm directing you to look at the box of bullets on the right side of the picture, they are lubed correctly and look like they have no lube on them at all.

Gary