Rust protection.

Eezox been using it for years and its great

Eezox is good......... I use it on my unmentionables, No complaints.

Dave

Lead Nuggets said:

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.

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If it works, great. I’d be concerned about the salt in it, or have you found a salt free bacon grease source?

For a rust protector and lubricant, nothing beats the performance and price of Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil. It was engineered to do both of those things at a high level. Not a particularly romantic choice for muzzleloading, but it was originally developed for use on nuclear submarines, and a quart will last you a long time for gun things.

I haven't paid the steep premium for "specialty" gun lubricants for a long time.

Now lube for patches and shooting and cleaners are a different matter, but to prevent rust and keep things moving that's it.

I made it simple.

Italian Pedersoli... Olive oil

TC.... bore butter.

My knight.. maybe Ren Wax

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, sperm whale 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. Think back to the 70s or 80s when lots of guys spent good money to get oil filter cannisters that took rolls of toilet paper. The company that sold them touted the super filtration, low cost, ease of replacement etc. that their TP method offered. I wonder how many engines got locked up a few miles down the road when that roll of Charmin turned to a soggy lump of paper. Neither the old ways nor the latest gee whiz ways are always the best ways.

barracudadave67 said:

Eezox is good......... I use it on my unmentionables, No complaints.

Dave

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I use Eezox on both my muzzle loaders and smokeless guns. I'm happy with it.

The Miner '49er said:

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.

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It's for in use Shotgun.

On modern M I'm looking synthetics. The Ren wax. I want to get n try so that gun gets that.

Shotgun.. I want to just swab a few patches of whatever after the hunt each day all week instead of cleaning everyday after one shot or two. Then I'll clean and start over each week..

After the season I'm still not worried. Good cleaning I'll use like olive oil I think and keep an eye on it.. I won't have to clean out gun oil to use it.

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 ><>

Trigger said:

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.

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Break Free CLP has worked flawlessly for me as a rust preventive for 50 years.
Ditch the Bore Butter. It was developed when black powder shooting really started taking off, and most shooters and lubricant suppliers were ignorant about what worked the best.
There are dozens of other products that work better than Bore Butter.

smoothshooter said:

Break Free CLP has worked flawlessly for me as a rust preventive for 50 years.

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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.

jd45 said:

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.

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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 was wrong on this one.
Sure, I’ll grant that natural oils and lubricants are better in most 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?

smoothshooter said:

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?

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Ballistol is different.. I've shot with that in the barrel.. it's ok so far.

Trigger said:

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.

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Break Free is not a BP cleaner.
It is a preservative against rust in a clean bore or exterior.

Bumbling bear bear grease has worked for me for 50 years

Buff1958 said:

Bumbling bear bear grease has worked for me for 50 years

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Sounds like I wound need to buy a Kibler at that point.

I couldn't think what to use on one of those.

Ohio Rusty said:

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 ><>

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@Ohio Rusty is the humidity on your side of the state so bad that not just trees, but you are Rusty as well?

smoothshooter said:

Break Free is not a BP cleaner.
It is a preservative against rust in a clean bore or exterior.

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For someone who doesn't use there muzzloaders at all..

Some are just a deer season.

A club shoot ounce a month.

Hunting on the weekends.

Everyday use. Clean it again.

It is kinda simple.

Not making a Crack at anyone for using the gun less thing.

My turkey gun.. deer gun.. it's a season gun. One shot. Clean and oil. It's no big deal. Break Free oil of choice

Ballistol.. I don't think makes gummy tar stuff.. it's different.

the olive oil I don't think is the best choice but...

I'll probably coat the clean bore with bore butter.. then after hunting use the olive oil to pull some fouling mostly.

The most interesting product..

Real military grade wax.. why ever need any oil again.