smoothshooter
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What would be wrong with trying it? If you don’t like the results just go back to what you use now.
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BALLISTOL a fair shake
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love the product and love the smell. Frog lube also smells wonderful
flatcreek
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Ok with the smell, have used it for lube and cleaning. But logic tell me something that mixes with water can not be the best protection from moisture and rust. Barricade for protection.
I use it as patch lube, a 4to1, soak for a while, slide the excess of with my fingers lay patch strips flat to dry. I have some I made up a couple years ago, stored in a sammich bag that aren't dried out. I also take a spray bottle mixed with ballistol and water with me to the range when I shot my C&B revolvers. Give them a good spray, wrap them in a rag, makes them much easier to clean when I get home.
I talked to Jason of Rice Barrels last year at Kempton. He told me protects his barrels with synthetic motor oil.
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Not to good on hot dogs
I love it, don't get why people don't like the smell, I don't love the smell like I do Hopes#9, but don't hate it either. I use a mix of 1:7 with water to lube patch material, let dry on flat horizontal surface. I use a mix of 1:19 with water, then mix that 2:1 with Hoppe's#9 in a small spray bottle to swabb and clean with, can't tell the difference between that mixture and the commercially prepared Hoppe's Black Powder Bore Solvent.
Personally, I find the odor intoxicating...The results of cleaning BP weapons with Ballistol is five star. How can one not like it compared to past boiling your BP weapon in soapy Borax water, then oiling the weapon, etc. I thank Mike Beliveau for showing me the way. Ballistol uber alles!
rodwha
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From what I understand it makes cleaning quite the tedious chore, who’d want to deal with that? I like how it cleans up fairly easily.
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I held off using Ballistol for years because of having to mail order it. I finally got some and it’s all I use now for antiques. It’s the best thing I have found for giving the entire gun a wipe down. It does work good on metal, leather, and wood.
I rarely use it for cleaning guns anymore these days. But I keep a jumbo jar of it on the bench. I'll take the lid off when I'm down there. I usually spend more time thinking about the old days when the aroma starts. Every now and then, I'll give Dad and grandad's guns a wipe down with a dab on a silicone rag. When I was a kid and too small id be in their way while they were cleaning guns after hunting. That smell takes me right back.Greenjoytj
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My preferred lube oil and patch lube is Lubegard Premium Universal Lubricant.
It’s base is JoJoba oil which has qualities superior to whale oil.
As muzzleloaders your all suppose to swoon with desire at the mention of whale oil. This whale oil substitute doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t get gummy and is non petroleum (although I don’t believe in the don’t use petroleum oil with BP with today highly refined synthetic oils).
https://www.amazon.com/Lubegard-61016-Premium-Universal-Lubricant/dp/B0002JMLS8?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1
It’s base is JoJoba oil which has qualities superior to whale oil.
As muzzleloaders your all suppose to swoon with desire at the mention of whale oil. This whale oil substitute doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t get gummy and is non petroleum (although I don’t believe in the don’t use petroleum oil with BP with today highly refined synthetic oils).
https://www.amazon.com/Lubegard-61016-Premium-Universal-Lubricant/dp/B0002JMLS8?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1
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I like Ballistol a lot. I've been shooting black powder competitively for 12 years and have used Ballistol the whole time. I buy it buy the gallon, and a gallon lasts years. I clean with soapy water and follow up with Ballistol. It catches any final bits and oils also. I also rub down the stocks with it and also my competition leathers.
Doesn’t matter To me. I like it. Bore butter is junk.
Then I guess the manly essence of Hoppes nr. 9 would cause you to go back to doll collecting?
There are air fresheners that smell like Hoppes. Amazon maybe
thixotropy
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There is a chemical in Ballistol which is the same (in concentration) used in clearing Bees from honey supers, once you've smelled it you do not forget it- similar to concentrated vomit...so, there you go!
The very fact that it does mix with water makes it a superb rust protector. Moisture evaporates, the oil doesn’t, so the oil residue remains and keeps working. If you will recall petroleum oils float on water.
