Oily/Waxy ammo

[308ftWIN]

Just starting ammo testing for my T1X. Noticing many of the match ammos are really waxy/oily compared to CCI SV. Are you guys wiping these off as you load up mags?

Gummed up my Savage B22. Not enough rounds downrange with the T1X to see if they affect function.

 

[Ravenworks]

Yes terry cloth rag

 

[6.5SH]

You want the lube on the bullet.
A periodic tooth brushing of the bolt face and breech and a chamber brush will keep you running.

 

[Cowpokey]

Put a paper towel in your range bag, to wipe your hands off. I leave the grease on the rounds with Lapua/SK. Wax lube rounds like CCI, nothing to worry about. Clean your action and mags when needed.

 

[AirGunShawn]

I have never removed the lube from any bullets. In fact at my LGC, the rules state that I must use ammo out of the
box with no alteration. I have however washed off pellets and relubricated them because they can have manufacturing
flaws and various gunk on them. I get tins of 500 and inspect and size every one of them. I have no empirical data to support
my position, I have other things. Lube is also an added cost for the manufacture, and it seems like they would eliminate it if it was of no benefit.
I don't shoot black powder but would need to ask, why do they have lube groves in the bullets?
Lube seems like a good idea to me.

 

[Simonsza1]

Actually for me the lubed Sk runs like a champion but get the occasional failure to extract with cci sv unless I continuously clean the chamber.

 

[darth_ritis]

I don't clean the lube from Lapua/SK and haven't had a problem. I have rarely used waxed ammo so couldn't really say.

 

[MarkCZ]

I leave lube on. No problem in my T1X

 

[pballkm21]

The lube is there for a reason - leave it

 

[b6graham]

leave it on. it's there for a reason

 

[Merlin O]

Clean it off and you will lead up your barrel and bad things happen to your accuracy. Cheaper ammo has a different lube than "good" ammo and cheaper has more of a tendency to "gum up". There are a million secret formulas for special magical accuracy enhanced lubes and they are generally used on cheaper ammo to try to make the cheap stuff shoot like the good stuff. Clean off some CCI Standard and use a lanolin coating and see if you can detect a difference. Expensive barrels need less lube (maybe) than cheaper rougher barrels. A common old thought was one round per inch of barrel to properly coat/season a freshly cleaned barrel. This is now not very common especially with todays super slick lapped high quality barrels.

 

[Graywolf.260]

Just load some waxy center-x as is and be happy