Lubing Pellets

I use dish soap to cut through the grease. With a fan pointed at them I lay them out to dry .
And finally a light coat of silicone spray. As a bonus the silicone spray gives me a chronographed
10-fps increase.

I recently tried this. Washed with simple green and rinsed with water. After drying took half and left clean, and dry. Half sprayed with lock-ease graphite lube, and allowed to dry. Shot all 3 versions, based on group size at the same 10m distance with the same rifle both washing alone. And washing with lube shot worse then untouched from the new tin. I am not saying I won't try it again at some point, but it would be with a different pellet/rifle combo. I may try a different lube on the remainder of the only washed pellets as I have nothing to lose there.

The only thing I’ve found lubing pellets to do is reduce fouling.

I use the white lightning dry chain lube but only seems to make a difference at 100 yards plus

I haven't personally tried it but have talked with a fellow who uses WD-40 on his pellets and although I don't recall exact numbers, I do remember thinking that his claims as to increased velocity were 'substantial.'

As common as WD-40 is used as a fix all I was half surprised to not find it among any of the above posts as something anyone else has tried out on pellets.

Is Slip 50 in any relation to the gun CLP, Slip2000? Probably not, but Slip2000's EWL (extreme weapons lubricant) line is what I like to use on my PB rifles & pistoles for lubing/final pass on the cleaning process. I like to use a dedicated solvent prior to that for cleaning things up though.

Trent A said:

I haven't personally tried it but have talked with a fellow who uses WD-40 on his pellets and although I don't recall exact numbers, I do remember thinking that his claims as to increased velocity were 'substantial.'

As common as WD-40 is used as a fix all I was half surprised to not find it among any of the above posts as something anyone else has tried out on pellets.

Is Slip 50 in any relation to the gun CLP, Slip2000? Probably not, but Slip2000's EWL (extreme weapons lubricant) line is what I like to use on my PB rifles & pistoles for lubing/final pass on the cleaning process. I like to use a dedicated solvent prior to that for cleaning things up though.

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Do not use WD-40 in your airguns ever it will eat up your seals and cause dieseling please do not do this

Two different Hornady One Shot.. Cleaner protectant also case lube..

JimBentley said:

The only thing I’ve found lubing pellets to do is reduce fouling.

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I’ve found that wiping down pellets with a microfiber cloth also works well.

Lubes are a good concept but any oil based lube seems to attract more fouling than it resolves.

Beezer said:

I lube my pellets with M-Pro 7 or Hoppe's Elite gun oil, they are both the same made by Pantheon. It prevents leading in my air rifle and rimfire rifle, and helps prevent coppering in my centerfire rifles.

Hornady One Shot is a high pressure wax lube. While mainly made for resizing cases for reloading purposes, Hornady says you can spray your cartridges for better functioning in semi-auto firearms, and it certainly has done that for me. It can vastly increase case life in an FN FAL fired cartridge by preventing head separation by letting the entire case expand evenly in the chamber when firing, thus preventing massive stretching in the head area and preventing head separation. Cases coated with One Shot have far less neck trimming as the case returns to nearly original length as the head webbing area does not get overstretched. Never tried lubing pellets with it, however.

I might try spraying some pellets with One Shot and running them over the chronograph. However, it does increase case life in centerfire cartridges fired from loose chambered rifles.

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Your right, but wrong. If your rifle is chambered correctly with proper headspace the head area is not massively stretched. By lubing the cases your putting the full force from the detonation back against the bolt stressing your lugs. The case is SUPPOSED to grab the chamber walls to prevent this from happening, it's not a good thing. Now it may help extraction in a military automatic weapon but it's not a good thing in normal application. The reason in a normal firearm after the chamber is cut it's roughed up is so the case can expand and grab the chamber walls to prevent the force from fully slamming back against the bolt head.The reason the case .200 line area might stretch massively as you state is because in a military mass production scenario the clearance to the bolt face is overlay generous due for the need to help extraction and feeding during a high rate of fire. The best accuracy is not their primary concern, they just want to make it always go bang.If your chasing living as a way to shoot better I believe you would be way ahead using wind flags and working on your bench manners.

Clean with dawn , put a couple drops in a bowl with some hot water add your pellets swish them around .
I use a strainer to rinse them out , dump them on some paper towels and let dry .
When dry i put them i a baggie and put a couple drops of Slick 50 on the inner side of the bag and roll them in it .
Let the lube evaporate over nite then back in the tin .

As mentioned by others, clean pellets and slugs with Dawn. Dry and very lightly lube with Ballistol.
Ballistol will not damage the in-chamber probe seal.

JackHughs

I've recently started using WD-40 on the slugs I shoot from my Caiman after finding a lot of lead in the barrel. Accuracy and velocity seem unchanged and the gun seems fine. I doubt the lube gets on anything other than the breach O-ring.

I like using HBN powder for a lubricant
I add some airsoft bb's to a ziplock baggie..then about 1/8 teaspoon of HBN and mix it up until all the bb's look white
then add the pellets and tumble them around for a few until they have a been thoroughly coated, but not looking like they are heavily frosted(too much powder)
Pour out onto a box with a wire mess to separate the bb's from the pellets
it's non toxic, but use gloves in a ventillated area

I've used a silicone lube by WD 40 brand then moved over to strike hold spray bottle, definately no sticky feel after couple months and reduced leading of the barrel.