Who's got a good recipe for black powder lube

[almar]

That sounds like an interesting recipe. I think I have all the ingredients here.

Wonder Lube and bore butter freeze up like a brick in my winter weather. Ok for the rest of the year.

hold on...if your talking about Paul Mathews recipe, be careful and add the murphey soap slooowly...it bubbles up and can make a mess keep the temperatures as low as possible too. My wife still uses it against me today because i did this on the stovetop.

[GL49]

hold on...if your talking about Paul Mathews recipe, be careful and add the murphey soap slooowly...it bubbles up and can make a mess keep the temperatures as low as possible too. My wife still uses it against me today because i did this on the stovetop.

What a guy. I would have suggested a video watching you make it so we could all learn a little.

[Jeff Michel]

As mentioned in a prior post. Unsalted lard/beeswax about 50/50 but your can add more lard to make it softer.

[BadgerShooter]

We just canned up a pigs worth of lard. I may remelt my chicken fat/beeswax lube and add some lard to soften it up a bit.

[FrankJD]

GATOFEO #1 LUBE
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For grease grooved bullets and muzzleloader ball patches, by weight ...

1 part mutton tallow (Dixie Gun Works)
1 part canning wax (Gulf online)
1/2 part beeswax (filtered)

Melt all ingredients via double boiler (lube pot inside a water pot).

[BadgerShooter]

Shot the underhammer today with straight crisco. Best accuracy so far. 30g Swiss 3F 127 gn Maxi Ball. 1.5" at 50 yards from the bags.

[Lead pot]

It depends if your talking lube for grooved bullets or patch lube.
For over 60 years I have used just old Vaseline for patch lube. Nothing else added. It lets me load for a 25 - 30 shot ML match without having to wipe the bore to seat the ball down on the powder. It had been used since the late 1880's when it was invented. It also works very well mixed with B-Wax, Soy Wax or Ozokerite wax for the grooved or lube wads for PP.
If I chose to use lube with a GG projectile I use a mix of Soy or Oz wax softened up with vaseline and a little peanut oil.

[BadgerShooter]

Just shot a Primitive Biathlon in 14F temps. Shooting a 36 cal underhammer with Maxi style bullets. After trying a bunch of stuff, at low temps, Crisco works great. Won the match too!
During a side match, offhand at 25 and 50, I shot my 34 cal percussion gun with patched buckshot. I kept a chemical handwarmer in my pocket with my patch strip to keep the lube soft. It was a patch lube from MyFlintlocks.com. Worked well also.