Pan lubing Lee R.E.A.L bullets

I have been using an old pie pan to melt down bullet lube, deer tallow and bees wax then refrigerate. I use a piece of copper pipe to cut the bullets out of the solidified mixture and shoot them one at a time but if they sit outside on a warm day the projectiles don't come out as cleanly with the grease grooves evenly filled and it gets messy. I'd like to be able to use a lubricant that's solid enough to make my own pre made paper cartridges with a over powder wad, powder charge and lubricated bullet all ready to go similar to the old paper cartridges used in the Civil War. Need some ideas so I can reload in the field with pre made cartridges ready to go that keeps the lube intact.

More bees wax and cut them out of the lube and put into containers rather than leaving them in the pan in the sun.

I agree with @hawkeye2 ; use a higher % of wax, then remove from the pan & store when solid. If you wanted to put the time into it, you could wrap the lubed bullets with thin paper for storage, then peel it away when loading. It would add a layer of tedious fussinabout to range day... but it's muzzleloading! Fussinabout is The Way.

FWIW, I used lamb/mutton tallow & beeswax to make a lube and it was solid as could be! I kept having to remelt and add more tallow, and then olive oil, in quantities that surprised me, to get a lube soft enough to use in late Fall through early Spring temperatures.

The REAL bullets don’t have much groove to hold lube. I have shot them pan-lubed with SPG at the range but it was messy. For field use I think I would use Lee Tumble-Lubed bullets over a home-made lube cookie. I cut these out of Crisco and Bees Wax lubed Dura Felt. A cheap 9/16” Harbor Freight punch works well for wads in my .54.

hawkeye2 said:

More bees wax and cut them out of the lube and put into containers rather than leaving them in the pan

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hawkeye2 said:

More bees wax and cut them out of the lube and put into containers rather than leaving them in the pan in the sun.i

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hawkeye2 said:

More bees wax and cut them out of the lube and put into containers rather than leaving them in the pan in the sun.

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I got some beeswax from local craft store. I'll try and make a more rigid bullet lube.

I just usr a 1/8 felt wad and slap some beeswax and bear tallow on my REALS.i put my lube in a chapstick tube easy and less mess.

there are 2 things i do differently than pan lube when using REALS, as stated the grooves are shallo3w so being that alot of times ill use 50-50 mix beeswax crisco when melted i take along pair of tweezers and dip them and put on wax paper and done. my favorite way is i bought the lube called x lox i take a galon size zipp lock put a bunch of bullets in the zip lock thrpow a few tablespoons of lube in the shake the or tumble them. i had the same woes as you at first