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Wax "Cookies" anyone have a better way?
Matt45
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I've reloaded a few BP cartridges, and one of the recommendations that was made to me by my reloading mentor was to make bee'swax cookies. It lubes behind each round fired an cuts down on fouling.
The process is pretty simple, heat up a 1-1 1/2 lb brick of Beeswax (Natural health food stores, beekeepers, ect I do not advise using paraffin wax..) take a small cookie sheet (8X11) and pour wax until you have about a 1/4" thickness. Take a cartridge of the caliber you are reloading and hacksaw off the base. (Either that or get a section of straight walled pipe and use it as a punch.) an 8X11 cookie sheet should yield plenty of the "cookies". IIRC something like 350 45-70
when reloading, charge the cartridge as usual, place a "cookie" in after the powder, before the bullet, and continue as usual.
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The process is pretty simple, heat up a 1-1 1/2 lb brick of Beeswax (Natural health food stores, beekeepers, ect I do not advise using paraffin wax..) take a small cookie sheet (8X11) and pour wax until you have about a 1/4" thickness. Take a cartridge of the caliber you are reloading and hacksaw off the base. (Either that or get a section of straight walled pipe and use it as a punch.) an 8X11 cookie sheet should yield plenty of the "cookies". IIRC something like 350 45-70
when reloading, charge the cartridge as usual, place a "cookie" in after the powder, before the bullet, and continue as usual.
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People
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Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to "Keep guns out of the wrong hands."
Guess what?
You have the wrong hands.
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PJ
If nobody seen you do it, how could you have done it. NRA Endowment Member, AF&AM, Shriner Life Member, A.B.A.T.E. of Illinois "Chicago Chapter" Founding Member & Board Member
Matt - will this contaminate the powder if they get too warm ? -Don
If you're letting your cartridges get up over 100 degrees or so, you might have a problems, but I asked that questionfrom the fellow that gave me the information, and said he never had a problem....
Of course the correct answer is, "I don't recall what the temp. was that natural beeswax becomes semi-liquid, but, I can ask around..."
CHGOTHNDR- I'm talking loading BP cartidges, not ML's....?
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Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to "Keep guns out of the wrong hands."
Guess what?
You have the wrong hands.