Dad's all season minie` ball lube
Winter recipe
1 part crisco shortening
1 part T/C bore butter
1 part bees wax
1/10th part extra virgin olive oil
Method;
melt bees wax in cast iron pan, bring up to smoke point and remove from heat. Add bore butter and crisco, stir for 20 minutes with a whisk, at about 15 minutes add olive oil. Let cool in pan and cut into managable blocks.
Summer recipe
1part crisco
1 part T/C bore butter
3 parts bees wax
1/10th part extra virgin olive oil
Use the same method as winter recipe, this will be much harder than the winter recipe and won't "melt" off your minie bullets on those hot summer days at the range and is non toxic, so eat all you want.
Known the world over as "Old number 91"
"Big Batch" of Felix lube recipe:
Here's a post by UTK from another thread, he dug up the recipe for the famous "Big Batch of Felix Lube" made by Felix himself many years ago. I don't want it to get lost so I'm going to stick it here for reference:
"I have followed Felix-lube threads almost from the very beginning. Back in 2003 Felix listed all ingredients in his "BIG BATCH":
The batch that was sent out to everyone has the chemistry set as follows:
All super-refined cosmetic grade.
1. 110 pounds of beeswax
2. 20 pounds of anhydrous lanolin.
3. 3.5 gallons of mineral oil.
4. 0.5 gallon of Jojoba oil.
5. 0.5 gallon of castor oil.
6. 3 pounds of carnauba.
7. 2 pounds of (180F degree) micro wax.
8. 3 bars of Ivory, washing hands size.
9. 1 pound of Vibar 103.
10. 1 pound of A-C-100
A lot more ingredients than today's recipe (What is A-C-100?) and different ratios."
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