rgchristensen wrote on Dec 1
st, 2022 at 3:27am:
The classic "lube pump" is the quickest, best, neatest way to lube tapered bullets. It requires, of course, an ad hoc die for any given bullet, but is undoubtedly the tool to use for the job.
CHRIS
The more I read here, the more I discover I
don’t know! One thing Charlie Dell told me that stuck in my mind was that to lube tapered bullets without muss or fuss, I virtually had to have a Pope style lube pump with a bullet insert precisely reamed for that specific bullet. Charlie’s version of the Pope tool was considerably larger than the original, but the concept was the same.
In practice, I have the pump and a sorted box of as-cast bullets on the bench. I lube the bullet freshly as I load it, pick it up with my Willis Gregory breech seater, and insert it. I then use my Simmons re- and decapper to prime the case I just fired, drop in a charge from my Ideal #5 M powder measure, and sometimes add a cork or cardboard wad. Insert prepped case and shoot a 25 every time (in my dreams!
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When I’m shooting my bench gun, I charge a hundred or more cases at a time in advance, but other than that, the procedure remains the same.
To bring it all back to the theme of the thread, my tapered Schuetzen bullets
always get lubed with a lube pump… I
do pan lube with Emmert’s (as taught to me by Dale53) for some BP bullets such as Minie Balls for N-SSA events, but that’s a discussion for another forum.
Froggie
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