Greasy Wolf .22 LR ammo

[ChronoCube]

I bought some boxes of .22 LR Wolf match grade ammo at a gun show a few months back. I've found that it shoots well but each round is covered in nasty grease, which I had to wipe off. Is this an anomaly or are they all like that?

 

[LopezEL]

All wolf and SK standard .22 ammo is like that.

 

[timberbeast63]

Wiping of the lubricant might make your hand cleaner, but it will actually degrade the performance of the ammo. That lubricant is what lines your bore and eases the bullet down the barrel. Removing it will increase leading of your bore and will alter that velocity of the ammo.

I don't like the greasiness of the Wolf ammo, either, but I sure love how it shoots in a lot of my rimfires, especially my CZs and Sakos.

Lapua and Eley lubricants are much drier, and they are quality ammo, but cost more than Wolf.

 

[jaholder1971]

Most match ammo has some kind of lube like this on it. No big deal.

 

[zminer]

I had the same experience when I was testing out several small boxes of higher-quality ammunition to see if it really shot better from my 10/22. I thought it was weird to have greasy ammo, because I didn't know it served a purpose.

 

[bhk]

All .22 ammo is lubed, even the copper washed stuff. Some of the modern hunting and plinking stuff has hard laquer type lube on it. Most target ammo has lubes that are thicker and often greasier, but also much more accurate.

 

[bannockburn]

ChronoCube

Essentially what timberbeast63 said; I don't know what that lubricant is on Wolf's .22 ammo, but I sure like the results. Great stuff that is reliable and clean shooting as well. Extremely accurate in all my .22 pistols and rifles.

 

[22-rimfire]

Leave the lube alone. Some shooters try to add lube to some sparsely lubed rounds.

 

[BHP FAN]

some of you fellows are pretty young...or I'm pretty old. All .22 ammo was like that when I was a kid.

 

[LaserSpot]

If you shoot in the winter after using this stuff, you may have a problem with accumulated grease inside the magazine getting thick and jamming it.
I had this problem with Eley ammo and Ruger 10/22 mags; the cure was to clean them and give the spring an extra half turn during re-assembly.

 

[ChronoCube]

some of you fellows are pretty young...or I'm pretty old. All .22 ammo was like that when I was a kid.

Figures... I just turned 25.

 

[22-rimfire]

Enjoy life. 25 is a great age. Keep buying guns and shooting. Maybe you'll have a few hundred by the time you're 60 years old.

 

[JohnBT]

"I don't know what that lubricant is on Wolf's .22 ammo"

IIRC, it's tallow and beeswax, but I don't work for the Nammo Group factory in Germany that makes Wolf rimfire.

John

 

[ilbob]

I don't think it is grease. more like a wax.

it does not seem to affect how well it shoots or functions.

 

[ChronoCube]

So how do y'all use the waxed ammo without it getting all over your hands and your gun? Seems like a lot of trouble.

 

[ChronoCube]

Enjoy life. 25 is a great age. Keep buying guns and shooting. Maybe you'll have a few hundred by the time you're 60 years old.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[JohnBT]

"So how do y'all use the waxed ammo without it getting all over your hands and your gun?"


That messy lube is good for you. Just rub it into your skin.

Dixie Gun Works sells mutton tallow for lubing bullets. Here's a post from their site:

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/produ...=2066&osCsid=1e13352276e428e3f8871dd2d04d84e3
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LA1002 Mutton Tallow Reviews

Product: LA1002 Mutton Tallow

From: Lawrence Parish
Date: Wednesday 18 February, 2009

Review:

Mr Curtis Stanton is absolutelly correct insofar as mutton tallow is the most supeior lubricant for the skin. I am a dermatologist and have been telling patients to buy sheep's kidneys and pare off the fat and render it to produce mutton tallow. I suggest they store it in the refrigerator, however, for safe-keeping.
The kidneys make good eating too.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
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[DrLaw]

You can find Wolf .22 ammo?

The Doc is out now.

 

[JohnBT]

I bought cases of it, both WMT and WME, back when the WMT was $15 a brick. Then I bought more when it went to $18 a brick. Then I bought a little more at $20, but that was too expensive. It was so long ago it was before they changed the type of powder they used. It still sounds like it's good ammo though.

Back to the tallow/beeswax topic for a second. Even Eley still uses it.

www.shootingtimes.com/ammunition/eley_101405/index2.html

"So TenEx bullet material is fabricated in an oxygen-free atmosphere and lubed with a soft tallow/beeswax material, the same lube Eley used 150 years ago; most modern bullet lubes are paraffin-based, which is harder."

 

[JohnBT]

Here's some WMT for sale.

www.the-armory.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/wolf.html

Only $64.90 a brick.

Or $599 a case.

That's just nuts.

John

 

[BHP FAN]

''Quote:
some of you fellows are pretty young...or I'm pretty old. All .22 ammo was like that when I was a kid.

Figures... I just turned 25. ''

me too...about 25 years ago.May you have many years of shooting fun in your future.

 

[JohnBT]

Youngsters, the bunch of ya. I'm 58, my uncle is 77 and my father is 87.

Good guns will last a long, long time if taken care of. And shot often. You can't let a gun forget how to be accurate.

John

 

[JH225]

While the Wolf grease (wax) makes no difference in many rimfires, it will not cycle in my DPMS upper.