lubed pellets

[hw97k 36]

is it okay to lube pellets for a springer,some say no and some say yes?do any of you with a springer lube your pellets? cheers.

[seapig 0]

is it okay to lube pellets for a springer,some say no and some say yes?do any of you with a springer lube your pellets? cheers.

Use natural beeswax furnture polish for springer pellets,Wash them first,then dry them with a hairdryer till they are hot to hold.Then spray the polish onto a cloth and tip in the hot pellets and roll back and forth to coat all the pellets.The washing is the most usefull thing as it removes all the dust and swarf from the pellets,especially if you push them around a shallow container with a paint brush making sure you get them well scrubbed.You will be amazed at how much crud there is in the water when you have removed the pellets.

[hw97k 36]

thanks for that seapig mate

[pianoman 3,587]

As with seapig's response, a wash in Fairy liquid, rinse and hairdryer dry. But I use WD40 on my .22 H&N FTT for my HW77 and HW80. Very light coating. I've been using it with successful results for years.

 

Simon

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I just put a few drops of Napier Power Lube on the pellets in the tin. Seems to take off a lot of lead bits and leave them in the tin! Saving them all up so I can melt them down and turn them into a sea fishing weight (at this rate will need about 1 million tins of pellets to make the 8 ounce lure)...

[matt_hooks 188]

The basic rule is not to use anything that's readily combustable, so really WD40 is a no no (some use it, but you risk it igniting under compression, known as dieselling which causes uncertain velocities and possibly pushes the pellet over the legal energy limit.) The bees wax is a good idea, as long as it's not sticky. The Napier pellet lube is pretty good too. Washing your pellets does as much as lubing, and if you only do one thing, the wash is the thing to do.

 

Also, if you change lubricants, or start/stop using one, you will notice accuracy drops off for a few shots, before coming back up again. This is as the barrel becomes coated/loses the coating.