I tried it. I drizzled a little on the bullets in a plastic bowl, sloshed them around, and set them base-down on some wax paper with a pair of forceps to dry overnight. They were milky-looking when wet, then when dried they looked unlubed. I loaded them anyway.
120-something grain bullets in mixed .38 Special cases, with 4.5 grains of Green Dot and Wolf sp primers. This is not a light target load but kind of upper-end standard-pressure.
The bullets don't have a crimp groove, so I crimped into the lube groove. (they almost look like heeled bullets after I crimped them.) I had to run about 10% of them thru a Lee FCD to post-size them because the bullets swelled the cases too much to chamber easily. I need to sort my brass by headstamp for this because almost all of the ones I had trouble with were CBC brass (and one military case, I don't remember its headstamp)
After shooting 100 rounds, the bore looked unusually clean -- even though Green Dot is not known for burning cleanly. I ran a cleaning brush (dry) thru the bore a couple of times and the bore looked polished (one sliver of lead about an inch long came out of the rifling, I don't know if that was there before or not.) I've never had a bore clean up that easily. I really think it was cleaner than before I shot it.
I can't comment on the accuracy yet because I'm out of practice and my shooting sucks. My slow-fire targets looked pretty good though. And there was no excessive smoke like there with Alox-based lubes.
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Last edited by zxcvbob; September 26, 2008 at 09:29 PM.
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