I have used it for a couple of years, starting with steel waterfowl loads and now adding it to wads and even shot.

I have never chronoed loads assemble with and without it, so I can't comment on the velocity thing, but is does make tight fitting loads go together better, and helps prevent thick steel wads from getting pulled back out of the hull with the rammer tube.

A very little of that stuff goes a long way, and I'm still on my first jar.

 

Yup. it lubricates your money out of your pocket, any other claim is superfluous.

 

Sounds like a solution to a non-existent problem.

 

I use it on my wads for waterfowl loads. It sure does lubricate well. Things seems to work better when they get nice and lubricated!

 

Sounds like a solution to a non-existent problem.

Pretty cheap solution if it reduces/eliminates plastic fowling in your chokes for those that have that issue

 

i wouldnt even bother using that stuff,
if you are really are that concerned about wad friction, even after having ~10000psi put through the wad maybe relax a little?

 

There is a sucker born every minute.

If factory ammo does not use certain items, there is a good chance you shouldn't either.

Heat? Heat is doing what that you need to address it? The heat is present for 4 milliseconds, and what is being affected by it?

Friction? Sure there is friction, for about 4 milliseconds and what affects on velocity does it have?

Motor Mica = BPI 100 - your reloads 0

When you stop buying things, mostly BPI's advice, your credibility will go up.

 

I bought a tin of Motor Mica several years back for another purpose and understand it's the same stuff -- and it looks like it is. I don't use it for wads personally, but I'm guessing a teaspoon in a big shaker bag would do 500 wads easy, and probably 1000. It appears to be the dust on green dusters. It does appear to increase velocity 25 FPS or so over not having it, I confirmed this with green dusters and my chrono, YMMV. It's a cheap enough experiment, and if you don't like it you have a lifetime supply of white graphite to lube other stuff with . Oh, and it does make a decent choke-tube lube, specifically reco'd for same by Pure-Gold for their chokes, and of course is clean. I put it in a 1oz sized pin-oiler and it's fine enough to blow through the needle -- and I've been using it for about 2 years and the tube is still half full. Point is, a little goes a long way.

 

25 FPS? yeah sure.

Maybe on a good day when the stars are aligned, with some load it will increase the velocity 10 FPS.

I can increase the velocity by 25 FPS and not have to deal with motor mica on anything.....increase the powder charge by 0.5 grain. I know some real out of the box thinking.

BTW you can't take a wad made by company X and compare it to the wad made by company Y and and claim, that whatever you THINK is on the exterior of the wad is the reason for a velocity increase.

 

Mark, quite honestly you are being a jerkwad. This is a discussion board, not a your-opinion-is-the-only-one-that-counts board.

I cleaned off several green dusters to do my comparison and saw an ernest 25 to 35 FPS gain from the dusted wads. So, go ahead and believe whatever you want to believe, you can be the Einstein of your own miniscule world. Frankly I don't give a rat's *** what you or anybody else wants to believe. I share results here that I have seen for myself, period -- take them or leave them.

The rest of you all, have a good weekend shooting. I'm outa here.

 

Gee, something I said? :mrgreen:

 

would it work on fibre wads?
thats got me thinking.

 

I use it on my hunting loads sure makes wads load easier I also use it on my loaded shells and they feed in my auto's way better.Mica wad slick is made out of mica(a mineral)not grafite which is powdered lead IMO.Sticks t plastic good and is cheap.

lubloy

imo

 

I use it on my hunting loads sure makes wads load easier I also use it on my loaded shells and they feed in my auto's way better.Mica wad slick is made out of mica(a mineral)not grafite which is powdered lead IMO.Sticks t plastic good and is cheap.

lubloy

Powdered lead? like the kind in Number 2 pencils or the kind in lead shot?

imo

 

Graphite is not powdered lead, but a hexagonal crystal of carbon.

 

I stand corrected on what graphite is made of thank you
lubloy

 

25 FPS? yeah sure.

Maybe on a good day when the stars are aligned, with some load it will increase the velocity 10 FPS.

I can increase the velocity by 25 FPS and not have to deal with motor mica on anything.....increase the powder charge by 0.5 grain. I know some real out of the box thinking.

BTW you can't take a wad made by company X and compare it to the wad made by company Y and and claim, that whatever you THINK is on the exterior of the wad is the reason for a velocity increase.

raising your powder drop by .5 over 500 rounds would be more costly than a table spoon of dust over 500 wads. its not a sermon, just a thought.

 

Well, I tried the mica thing and it won't get the velocity up much more than a few FPS, if at all. If you have ever dusted wads and had mica on you and the machine, 1/2 grain of powder over a lifetime of shells will be, IMO, a better choice.

I personally think it shows what folks really understand about reloading and shotshells, when products like motor mica are endorsed.

 

Sounds like a solution to a non-existent problem.

Pretty cheap solution if it reduces/eliminates plastic fowling in your chokes for those that have that issue

What formula did you use to come to that conclusion? Takes nothing more than a few seconds with a sharp pocket knife to remove plastic from a choke. Seems like much less time than it would take to lubricate the number of wads it would take to leave that same residue, plus my method costs nothing unless you don't own a knife.

 

Well, I tried the mica thing and it won't get the velocity up much more than a few FPS, if at all. If you have ever dusted wads and had mica on you and the machine, 1/2 grain of powder over a lifetime of shells will be, IMO, a better choice.

I personally think it shows what folks really understand about reloading and shotshells, when products like motor mica are endorsed.

You seem to ignore data that has been given in previous post concerning dusted wads that were chrono. I am sure you have your reasons however good or bad they are for doing this. Upping your powder drop will be more costly, compared to a cheap jar of dust that cost maybe $8 that can easily cover 5k to 10k wads. You will figure it out someday Forrest.

 

You will figure it out someday Forrest.

Now that's just down-right funny right there!

 

I haven't seen any chrono figures to back up that motor mica gives higher velocities.

Just claims from BPI and again with no chrono figures. You have no idea what might be on duster wads, if anything, so claims of motor mica are your guess at best.

This motor mica thing was proven to be a farce 18 or so years ago, by me using lead, buffered lead, steel, bismuth and buffered bismuth loads. The largest increase I saw was 8 FPS on one load, the rest of the loads showed no increase to 5 FPS. Hardly an increase that you want to brag about.

I worked for Precision Reloading at the time, we sold Motor Mica and we wanted to substantiate the claims of higher velocity and lower pressure, we couldn't find any such evidence.

 

You will figure it out someday Forrest.

Now that's just down-right funny right there!

Sure is! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sidebar note: If you Google NPD or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, it will confirm the need for some people to always be right in every circumstance. Unfortunately they rarely understand how ignorant and/or rigid they often appear. It supposedly affects about 1% of the population to some degree, and for whatever reason this forum seems to get a lion's portion of them...

 

raising your powder drop by .5 over 500 rounds would be more costly than a table spoon of dust over 500 wads. its not a sermon, just a thought.

You only need 1/2 teaspoon or less per 500 wads.

I think I have had success in coating 500 wads with only 1/4 teaspoon.

 

You will figure it out someday Forrest.

Now that's just down-right funny right there!

Sure is! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sidebar note: If you Google NPD or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, it will confirm the need for some people to always be right in every circumstance. Unfortunately they rarely understand how ignorant and/or rigid they often appear. It supposedly affects about 1% of the population to some degree, and for whatever reason this forum seems to get a lion's portion of them...

It actually effects about 20% of the people in the US. The US is a breeding ground that promotes and rewards Narcissism.

... and you are right about some of the people on this board having it. They think the world should think and act the way they think and act.

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