lube pills

[musicman]

To those of you who use these( I like them), what size do you punch them out to? I tried 1/2 in. and they work ok but am wondering if I go smaller, easier to insert, will they mash out when you seat the ball to seal the chamber? Thanks, John

 

[madcratebuilder]

I use a 45 and 357 case.

 

[Oquirrh]

I like the lube pills

I use a .357 case to punch the lube pills, then use them in both .36 and .44. I think the ball mashes them fairly uniformly.

In fact, I ran out of pills on a couple occassions and simply scraped up a shaving of the pill mix with a popsicle stick and dropped it in the cylinders eyeballing it to keep it consistent--then put the ball on top of the "chip" of lube. It seemed to work as well as the pill shape both in accuracy and lubing. But I have not done a careful comparison.

BTW, in cold weather, I have found pills stuck to my targets, which means they didn't do much lubing of the barrel.