I recently gave up on finding store bought boolits for my smokeless guns and started casting my own using wheel weights. Unfortunately nobody other than on eBay has 454 Lee round ball molds and I'm not about to pay double retail when I can actually still buy the things for a reasonable price around here. I do have about 20+ pounds of lead from tape wheel weights that appears to be pretty much pure lead and one of these days when and if Midway or Cabela's actually gets the 454 molds in I'm gonna use that lead for round balls, but on to my question....
I've been tumble lubing my smokeless boolits with a formula called 45-45-10 and I've fallen deeply in love with this quick and easy method. The 45-45-10 isn't suitable for Black Powder as it is Lee Liquid Alox and Johnsons Paste Wax along with about 10% mineral spirits. I'm wondering if anybody has ever made an attempt to mix up a special concoction of maybe beeswax, paraffin and olive oil or maybe Ballistol or some such to tumble lube round balls. If so has there been any modicum of success?
I've been tumble lubing my smokeless boolits with a formula called 45-45-10 and I've fallen deeply in love with this quick and easy method. The 45-45-10 isn't suitable for Black Powder as it is Lee Liquid Alox and Johnsons Paste Wax along with about 10% mineral spirits. I'm wondering if anybody has ever made an attempt to mix up a special concoction of maybe beeswax, paraffin and olive oil or maybe Ballistol or some such to tumble lube round balls. If so has there been any modicum of success?