What would be a good home made lube for Muzzleloader bullets?
What would be a good home made lube for Muzzleloader bullets?
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4 parts lanolin, 3 parts beeswax, 1 part canola oil. Patch lube.
Good morning Right at 55-45 Beeswax and Olive oil. This is my all purpose BP lube.
Mike in Peru
"Behold The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world". John 1:29
Male Guanaco out in dry lakebed at 10,800 feet south of Arequipa.
I've recently been using Dick Dastardly's Pearl lube. Equal parts by weight soy flakes, Crisco, and toilet bowl rings. I added some patchouli oil for good smell, now whenever I shoot it smells like a Grateful Dead show! I really like the lube though, it flows through my Lyman 45 just fine, works for black powder or nitro, and is super cheap to make.
I am 55 when I started hunting around 1960 with my grandpa. He hunted with a 36cal ML. if he could see a squrrial it was his. He used cut patches that had dots on them and Lard. I liked the smell when he would shoot. Makes me want to get a can of black and some bacon.
I was gonna ask on this. I am about ready to make some smoke at the range.
I cast up some R.E.A.L castings in both 45, and 50 for the wife and myself. Her first adventure in smokepoleing!
I am thinking about 55beeswax, 45 Crisco and olive oil.
Does Lithium grease do anything?
Good evening
My experience with BP and anything petrolium base is the petrolium causes a hard crusty coating in the barrel. It has been a long time since I have seen any lithiun grease and I do not remember what it is made of. But I do know I have never had any problem with Beeswax/olive oil keeping fouling soft. I use Cisco/beeswax in Illinois but crisco is imported here and EXPENSIVE.. but olive oil is cheap and I am happy with it.
"Behold The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world". John 1:29
Male Guanaco out in dry lakebed at 10,800 feet south of Arequipa.
Sounds like I have a game plan then.
Beeswax/Olive oil. I will use Crisco to stffen it.
Thanks.
if you want something fast and easy that works They sell a stuff called Wonder Lube in a squeeze tube that works good . Also with the REAL boolits I like the Bore Buttons. . I have run 50 loads and swap about every 10 bore is easy to clean next day.
Just beeswax and Olive oil.
That sounds too simple to be true!
I once made bullet lube from a receipe from Dixie Gun Works. Before the internet.
I ended up with a 2lb coffee can full of this stuff. I used it as boot treatment, leather treatment, my wife used it as lube for resilking pearl necklaces, I used as lube for my stone setting burrs. It was great.
It sounds like the stuff I am going to make is similiar.
I love it.
The lube is going on R.E.A.L castings. I plan on pan lubeing.
Besides, I am afraid if I spit, my dentures might beat me to the target!
If target shooting round ball, spit patched.
If a round ball hunting load, most any non petroleum oil will work, such as olive, canola, vegetable, lard, (unsalted) etc.
In short, it ain't rocket science.
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Well, I made some.
I started with a small pan. I have this 5lb chunk of beeswax. I melted some into the pan. I let that cool down. From that point, I added olive oil. I reheated the wax and stirred. I thought I had added a lot of oil. Wrong. I let it cool to check. It was rock hard! I reheated it and added more. Still rock hard. I added lots more oil. I figuired I could always add beeswax. I reheated it. It got softer, but still too hard to wipe a patch, or rub on a R.E.A.L. casting. I reheated it and added oil. Better. I reheated it and added Crisco. Why? Brain fart. Back to reheating and more oil.
I finally got to where it is workable. If it got cooler here, I would need to add more oil.
I was impressed at the amount of oil I needed. I way underestimated the amount. About 50% is correct.
I appreciat the help on this.
It worked!!
To the range hopefully tomorrow.
Well doc, how'd it go? I have read the bw is not actually a lube, mostly just a lube carrier. I've been waiting 6 mths. for the report, couldn't stand the suspense anymore. (just kidding). I'm on the way to the store right now to get some bw. I think I'll try Emmert's recipe for an all purpose muzzleloader, percussion revolver lube. My bp guns are seasoned nice, like a good old frying pan. No petroleum products for me. I think. Water soluble machinist's oil isn't petro based, is it? That's for my moose milk.
It went real well!
I had to stiffen it some, it was too loose for the R.E.A.L.s but you could wipe a patch and it worked real well.
With the stiffened lube, it was just a little less messy. I use it on my Cap and Ball revolvers, my rifles.
My wife's CVA Dikkert plains rifle, had rust in the bore. I made some R.E.A.L.s for her, brought some valve lapping compound, used it as lube.
Sweeeeet.
Fired about 10rds. The rifle had been sitting without being cleaned for maybe 20yrs before I bought it. No more rust now.
So, my ratio is 65% Beeswax, 35% Olive oil, or Corn Oil. I had one batch with Corn Oil. No issues there.
I use the lube when I am done cleaning the rifles also. Works better than oiling them.
We go to the range once a week, so lubeing the bores works well.
By the by. I like the R.E.A.L.s. Same POI as the patched balls. Hit hard!
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |