I bought 11 sticks of Lyman alox bullet lube on an ebay auction last year. It is the brown color alox lube and works better in my bullet/lube sizers than any other type I've tried.

Question is: is alox a smokey type of lube that leaves a big mess in the cylinder and barrels.

Jim :confused:

That Lyman lube was the standard lube for a long time. It will smoke a bit, cleaning the bullet bases helps cut that down. Usually keep a cloth rag, wet with a solvent, near the luber sizer...just rub the base across the rag setting the bullets in their tray. Won't cure the smoke, but will reduce it.

Generally, if there is a pronounced wet lube star at the muzzle after 10 or 15 rounds, can reduce the amount of lube applied to the bullets.

Thanks, Rib.

Nice to know its a good product yet, haven't had a chance to shoot any of my reloads this year, freaken snow is still too deep and its still too cold for an old guy.

I really like the way it works in my lube/sizer press. Nothing but problems with some of those hard blue or red lubes...I had to shoot a flame thrower on the press to get them to melt soft enough to work.

The old brown Lyman alox is a keeper.

Jim :)

Before the brown-alox mix, Lyamn lue was pretty close to black, no Alox, just a kind of beeswax/water pump grease substance...it would work, but wasn't a good hi-vel. lube.

Most modern bullets carry smaller lube grooves...shallower as well. This s more about the advnaces in bullet lubes than anything else...those old bullets were made to be used with the old styled lubes, and you needed a good bit more of them to get where you were going.

Depending on the amount of lube the bullet can carry, it is possible to use too much lube...sep. with today's lubes. Usually you notice the big deposits at the barrel crown, and perhaps a "spray" of lube on close range targets. I make a note of it, and the next time those loads are put up, will reduce the amount of lube used.

Lube does quite a few things...but for sure, it doesn't do them after the bullet has exited the barrel.