Best Animal fat for lube?

[Mogadishu Meanderer]

Legit question.
Olive oil is the most expensive oil on the grocery shelf.
Can other 100% 'pure seed oils' be used? They are a third the price.
Corn.
Soybean.
Canola.
Sunflower.
Peanut.
There's more I think I'm forgetting.
Thanks.

Sadly, with Bidenomics I feel your pain but you should look into highest flashpoint and lubricant ability. I have my own mix of food grade beeswax, lamb tallow and coconut oil. I feel like I am in the Caribbean every time I pull the triggah!! It makes awesome chapsticks too!!

 

[Bucks Co]

I have used mutton fat in the past - found it worked well but my 'rendering ' may have been wrong because it did go quite rancid after a while.

 

[ETipp]

I use bear fat because i have 10 quarts of it and have no need for anything else. Generally mixed with different percentages of bees wax depending on the temperature.

A good friend recently sent me some bear oil. I mixed it with real beeswax. The consistency is just about like TOTW Mink Oil that I have been using. I haven't tried any of it yet, probably wait until spring. The friend that sent it to me stated that its about like mink oil.

Personally, if I find that bear oil and beeswax produces good results, and if I can obtain more bear oil, then that's what I will most likely change over to. Its worked well for several hundred years.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

Where did you buy yours?

I acquired a big chunk of fat from a hunter in colorado. I cut thin slices from the fat and rendered it down in a pan over low heat. I still have a chunk of that fat in the bottom of my freezer.
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[Ohio Rusty]

A good friend recently sent me some bear oil. I mixed it with real beeswax. The consistency is just about like TOTW Mink Oil that I have been using. I haven't tried any of it yet, probably wait until spring. The friend that sent it to me stated that its about like mink oil.

Personally, if I find that bear oil and beeswax produces good results, and if I can obtain more bear oil, then that's what I will most likely change over to. Its worked well for several hundred years.

Your bears oil/beeswax mix makes a very good leather dressing for knife sheaths, shooting pouches, etc.
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[Daveboone]

He said he would render it first. Doesn't that get rid of the salt? If not, ya, you wouldn't want to use that!!

Rendering does NOT get rid of salt, and trying to filter it out doesnt work. You could certainly use pork fat trimmings off fresh pork roast, etc. (non processed/unseasoned, etc).

 

[Crow Choker]

Mutton/sheep fat (tallow) has always worked well for me over the years. Also great for making lube for bullets, mix it with the proper paraffin and olive oil. I'm not interested in trying to be 'old timey' and get raw bear, deer, sheep, or whatever fat and mess around rendering it down. Buy the sheep tallow in tubs and free from all of the mess. There were sheep in the 1700/1800's and those boys made use of the fat, if they had access to the rendered fat in tubs they would have taken advantage of it I'm sure.

 

[Sorry Dude]

I'm new and shot my 1851 Navy for the first time last week. I used TOW Mink oil on wads under the ball, fouling was minimal and cleaning the revolver was very easy.

 

[Captndan]

Skunk tallow. If you can’t find a skunk try hummingbird.

 

[Harry Marinakis]

Beef tallow is easily obtained in the grocery store, and it doesn't go rancid.

I mix 2 parts beef tallow to 1 part bear oil. Heat it sightly until it all liquifies and mixes. Let it cool, and it's a very soft paste. I keep a tin in my rifle bag.

I wouldn't use wax in my rifle, gums up the barrel in my experience. I used bear oil/beeswax on my leather but not my rifle.