Eezox been using it for years and its great
If it works, great. I’d be concerned about the salt in it, or have you found a salt free bacon grease source?Pour bacon grease through a coffee filter into a jar or can, wax, olive oil to the time of year. Never worry about rust I shoot to often.
I use Eezox on both my muzzle loaders and smokeless guns. I'm happy with it.Eezox is good......... I use it on my unmentionables, No complaints.
Dave
I'm not putting down anybody's cleaning method or choices of gun cleaner/lube/preservative. You can go 21st century or 18th century or even earlier, and if you're happy, that's all that matters. From what I've read, and I don't know much about it, whale sperm oil was the preferred gun oil a couple hundred years ago, but it was expensive and hard to get. I would imagine Daniel Boone and friends probably used bacon grease, hog lard, etc. because that's what they had on hand and it worked good enough. They couldn't hop on Amazon and get sperm oil delivered to their cabin doors but if they could have again I bet they would've preferred that. My 2¢ worth is if you are concerned about keeping rust at bay to try a few modern products any of which would probably be superior to the bacon grease type diy stuff.
Break Free CLP has worked flawlessly for me as a rust preventive for 50 years.Searching products again.
Bore butter..
Cooking grill products.
Make my own.
Renaissance wax..
to prevent rust.
I don't use anything in the bore during use because I been using gun oil to prevent rust. Been cleaning daily during the season.
Wondering if it's good for a week or two with a coat of the Renaissance wax.. that seems to be popular..
The search went from cooking to knifes to then armor. Then modern unmentionable back to armor back to muzzloaders. Used across the board. Renaissance wax.
Break Free CLP has worked flawlessly for me as a rust preventive for 50 years.
I think the admonition against petroleum-based lubricants in BP guns is WAAAYY overstated.Ross Seyfried was one of my favorite gun writers. He once wrote an article about all natural lubes on muzzleloaders. His advice was to never let petroleum products near it. I've been using T/C bore butter for 30yrs., inside and out. I've never had any rust. I've left it loaded all year many times and fired it before the season. It has never misfired.
I keep the rifle in my house. If you store yours outside in a barn you may need something else.
Ballistol is different.. I've shot with that in the barrel.. it's ok so far.I think the admonition against petroleum-based lubricants in BP guns is WAAAYY overstated.
I was always one of Seyfreid’s biggest fans, but he is wrong on this one.
Sure, I’ll grant that natural oils and lubricants are better in some cases, but some people act like using a petroleum-based one is akin to swabbing the bore with bleach.
Ballistol, one of the very best BP cleaning and preserving liquids is mineral oil based, and if I remember correctly mineral oil is a petroleum derivative.
Am I correct on that?
Break Free is not a BP cleaner.It does.
I wondered if it would even do anything if I didn't clean it out before use..
It's no good. I think that's when people pull 100 dirty patches out of the gun wondering why? Because that's what I did.
If using blackpowder anyway.
Sounds like I wound need to buy a Kibler at that point.Bumbling bear bear grease has worked for me for 50 years
@Ohio Rusty is the humidity on your side of the state so bad that not just trees, but you are Rusty as well?For extensive rust protection during the non-shooting days... I use RIG gun grease. I have found nothing better. Here in S.E Ohio it is so humid everything rusts ... anything and everything metal rusts ... even the trees rust. You need to be serious about rust protection here. I have been using RIG for 40 years and I've never experienced a rust issue.
Ohio Rusty ><>
For someone who doesn't use there muzzloaders at all..Break Free is not a BP cleaner.
It is a preservative against rust in a clean bore or exterior.
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