Red or Blue Lube

[Strawberry Bill]

I was going to order my first load of cast bullets and a friend said only get ones lubed with blue lube but my research shows that about 90% of suppliers use red lube so I'm wondering if my friend knows what he's talking about

[Camille Eonich]

Hmmm...I had some good ones that had pale green lube.  I don't think that I would worry about the color of the lube.

[Bow View Haymaker]

The color means nothing.  I had one supplier ask what color I wanted, I asked what the differenc was and they answered "just the color".  Red rooster I have heard is a good lube and obviously red.  It takes quite a bit of heat like 140-160deg. to flow.  We get lube from Thompsons and they have three blue lubes in heat ranges from 90 to 140-deg, thier red is 150-160deg. They have a purple for black powder that flows at about 95deg.  Some, like alox are yellow.  I have seen brown and green also. 
When picking a lube it depends on what your using to apply it to the bullets and how much heat you have to make it flow.  If your buying  bullets pre lubed then I think it is better to look for a quality bullet at a good price than the color of the lube.  I suppose you want a lube with a high melting temp for use in hot weather and a lower temp in coler weather caus the real high temp lubes can et brittle and fall out of the grooves when it gets real cold and the cold lubes can ment out when it gets hot.  Check out www.bulletlube.com to look at Thompsons.  We have had good luck with them so far.  Feel free to check out our website also. 

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[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I used to buy bullets from a local caster. All his bullets were lubed with a red colored lube. Most everybody else used a blue colored lube. One day I asked him why his lube was red. He said so that when people complained about the quality of his bullets he could show them they were not his. Everybody else used blue, he used red. For normal use with Smokeless Powder, absolutely no difference, other than the color.