No, I haven't. In the past I used Gorilla Grease. I guess at the heart of the matter is that it doesn't appear CVA designed these new skirts to completely release from the bullet. Every recovered bullet I have seen so far, with the new Platinums, has a black wafer of plastic still attached to the stem at the base of the bullet. The rest of the skirt appears to be scored so it will flare out and break away as soon as the bullet leaves the muzzle. I have shot almost 40 of these so far, and this is first one that clearly carried the entire skirt downrange 100 yards. Hit a foot low. Maybe it was a bad skirt that someone/something in quality control should have caught before it left the factory. I'm sureglad this wasn't the bullet I had in the pipe when lining up on a big bull elk out there at towards thelimits of my effective range. []