RockyMtnMT
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This thread made my day! Great humor!
As far as the oil goes. We use a mineral based machine oil. Non toxic for sure. We are in this stuff day in and day out and there is no way we would use something that had any kind of toxicity. Over the last few years we have cleaned in a few diff ways. We began by blowing out the hollow points with compressed are 3 at a time by hand. This would get most but not all of it out. We then used a small drill operated spinner that would do about 100 at a time. This would get all of it out. These both were very time consuming processes. We then went to just wiping them down and leaving the hollow point alone. Now we are cleaning the bullets with ultrasonic and citrus based detergent. This gets some of the oil out but not all of it. We are working on an idea to get air into the hollow point during the machining process. This should do a pretty good job if our idea works.
The oil in the hollow point or not... We have not been able to tell the difference in shooting or terminal performance. We have tested with them full, partial, and empty. They perform the same. There is about .2-.3 grains of oil in a full hollow point. The only issue we have had with oil in the hollow point is with automated loading machines and having some of the oil come out in the process. For that reason we are still working on a better way to clean it out. For the typical hand loader it is inconsequential. If a person wants it out you can just sling it out by hand. Hold on a give it a good sling a couple of times and it will come out.
Merry Christmas everyone!
As far as the oil goes. We use a mineral based machine oil. Non toxic for sure. We are in this stuff day in and day out and there is no way we would use something that had any kind of toxicity. Over the last few years we have cleaned in a few diff ways. We began by blowing out the hollow points with compressed are 3 at a time by hand. This would get most but not all of it out. We then used a small drill operated spinner that would do about 100 at a time. This would get all of it out. These both were very time consuming processes. We then went to just wiping them down and leaving the hollow point alone. Now we are cleaning the bullets with ultrasonic and citrus based detergent. This gets some of the oil out but not all of it. We are working on an idea to get air into the hollow point during the machining process. This should do a pretty good job if our idea works.
The oil in the hollow point or not... We have not been able to tell the difference in shooting or terminal performance. We have tested with them full, partial, and empty. They perform the same. There is about .2-.3 grains of oil in a full hollow point. The only issue we have had with oil in the hollow point is with automated loading machines and having some of the oil come out in the process. For that reason we are still working on a better way to clean it out. For the typical hand loader it is inconsequential. If a person wants it out you can just sling it out by hand. Hold on a give it a good sling a couple of times and it will come out.
Merry Christmas everyone!
