Patch Lub

[two snakes]

Years ago ole timers told me that they used lard, crisco lard, and crisco oil as a patch lub.  Just make sure there is no salt  added.  I was told it seasoned the barrel better. Is it still used by anyone out there?

[PA-Joe]

Yes and you can mix in bees wax and lanolin

[Will Bison]

All of the above will work just fine. Over the past 50 years I've tried just about everything for lube. I use two different types now. One is lanolin based for hunting when the load remains in the bore for several hours or longer. The other is alcohol, H2O2 and Murpheys soap for range work. The Murpheys mix is also what I clean with and then (here come the flames) I hose everything down with WD-40 and Marvel Mystery Oil.

[two snakes]

What is the mixture ratio between the lard / crisco and bees wax for a good lub?

[clodbuster]

Depends on the temperature when you shoot/hunt.  Colder-use more lard.  Warmer-use more beeswax.  50/50 is a good starting point.  Make a little and try it,  make the needed adjustment and go for it.

[Charles/NM]

I also hose my rifle down with WD-40 after a cleaning session on the OUTSIDE to displace moisture under the sights and ram rod under rib.  Those crevaces are great places for rust to form.  I learned my lession about petroleum lubes in the barrel the hard way.  And I mean hard.  The baked on hard tar in the barrel was very difficult to remove.

[Norseman]

I use PLAIN OLD LARD from Smithfield Virginia.  If the old timers used ANIMAL FAT (traditional), why shouldn't you?    As for using Lard in HOT weather...ADD a little beas wax.  In COLD use 100% LARD (slicker).  I am tired of GIMMICKS, especially  lubes that are expensive beyond belief, like Ox-"Joke" Wonder Lube and others that smell like Ben Gay!   1000 shots and not cleaning or wiping is pure BS... my patches picked up after fooling with OX-Joke and TC lube (same crap) looked like King Kong blew his nose in toilet paper!  
  Every one thinks his barrel should look like a "seasoned frying pan" after  proper break-in right?  Would you fry an egg in Ben Gay OR use good old LARD, or another animal fat on your frying pan? If you are watching your health just watch the salt content!   :lol:

[two snakes]

Just read in another muzzleloading forum where they use p-nut oil for a lube, works great.  Any comments

[Ramrod]

A little Oil of Wintergreen will make your lube smell just like Ben Gay and Bore Butter.

[Longcruise]

Just read in another muzzleloading forum where they use p-nut oil for a lube, works great. Any comments

Peanut oil has a high level of heat resistance, or whatever that quality might be called.  That's why it's so popular in turkey fryers.

I bought some a while back to use for lube but have not concocted anything yet.

I've always found that any of the common or popular lubes work just fine especially if you wipe aftter each shot.

My first 15 years of shooting ml I used nothing but crisco with fine results both on patches and conicals.  When TC1000+ came out I tried it and found it to work just as well but also found that when I cleaned the gun there was far less fouling left in the bore when using 1000 than when using crisco.  I switched for tha reason alone.  Later the escalating cost of the 1000 got under my skin and I went to using bees wax and olive oil.  Then again, lately I use a lot of "dry lube" (check the archives, we've talked it to death )

Results are fine with all of them if each shot comes out of a relatively clean bore.

[lostid]

(check the archives, we've talked it to death )

PLEASE! Not another "what the best lub"? back read,,back read,,please just check the archive and read!

 Lard will NEVER work! neither will beeswax nor crisco or any combination of the abouve!
 The onlyest bestest lub is; catsnot,possum squeezins,toad sweat and oil of "naugha"(greens the best),,and only if it's renderd near full moon by the left hand of brown eyed blonde, over the fire made by year old seasoned tammarack wood from a dry swamp!!!
 p.s. wet swamp tammarack wood won't work!
p.p.s.  if ya wanna be a "top shooter",,the secret is how the "possum " gets "squeezed"(sqweezed frem the top or sqweezed from the bottom makes a difference!)

 I'm realy sorry,,I'm just teasing. But there is SOO!! much info available here,,really,,just read back a bit ,you'll see. :-D  :-D  

[propredator]

I think the old timmers had it right,animal fats renderd works as good as anything else.I have found that a thinner patch lubed generously with lard or tallow is very accurate.A cut square patch from a strip that can be started with the thumb,and the ramrod used to push it in an down the barrel works good with a powder load that is 1/2 equal the weight of the ball,give er take a few grains and bore size.
  It works good,good enough that i have tossed ever other patch lube that i have laying around.  



Buckknife/propredator

[lostid]

OH! Prop!  how can a square patch work in a round barrel!??

just go to the store!! every patch you can buy is "round"!??

Square patch an animal renderins :? (yea right)  next thing you'll hear is "spit" can be used fer lub!! hhurumphm,,

 

[propredator]

The trick is to only use fresh squeezed possuim on that square patch