Sonny Edmonds
posted this
21 December 2012
rmrix wrote: Bullet lube for pan lubing needs to be of the type that you can push out the bullets from the lube cake. If you need to use a devise to cut out each bullet from the pan lube method becomes MUCH less attractive.
The need for a bullet-cake cutter adds a few steps.
It means the lube is not letting the bullet push out cleanly. Very good accuracy can be had with lubes that do not require the mess and use of cutters.
Pan lube is best when simple.
Yes it does. But it also removes most of the excess lube.
I tried pan lubing, but did not care for it. I don't have a lubersizer, so that is not an option.
But dipping has worked great for me. I “cookie cutter” my bullets from the racks (recycled from the range) leaving the excess in the rack, and a quick redip of the racks melts the excess right back into the pot.
Then putting my bullets through my Lee sizer (honed to be .002” over my rifles bore size) does two things: Sizes the bullet (obviously), and makes sure the lube grooves are uniformly filled with pressure (much like a lubersizer does). It also crimps the gas checks on (which were installed before the dipping process.
My “Modified Ranch Dipping” method allows me to quickly handle several hundred bullets at a time through a hot lubing process that also lubes the edge of the gas checks.
It takes seconds for my lube to solidify after the dip, not a long time.
I put the racks on an aluminum cookie sheet to cool while I do subsequent racks of bullets. By the time I get to rack 5 or 6 (250 - 300 bullets), the first are hard and ready to be extracted.
My cookie cutter pushes the excess off, a quick 1/4 turn and the base is scraped, and the lube filled bullet is in the cutter. It then gets ejected into a loaf pan for the sizing process.
Clearly it is a hybrid method between pan lubing, The Ranch Dog Dipping Method, and a Lubersizer Method. And my lube always stays in one place. (Relatively...)
But my bullets sure do get a lot of chances to be examined.
To you, it might sound less attractive. But then, I used to burn wood for heat. I cut my own wood. It does not warm you twice.
It warms you 6 times.
1. You cut it.
2. You split it.
3. You load it.
4. You unload it.
5. You carry it into the house.
6. It finally warms your feet.
(I did not include stacking nor ash removal)
Are you one of those guys who buys his wood delivered? :cba:
Because I know that is simple. ;)