Best Barrel Lube/Preservative With Triple 7?

[Runner]

There is a gentleman named Mark that posts here that has been telling people to use olive oil for a few years. Most of us clean the guns like they were modern guns and protect them the same way these days. Sheath, CLP, Ballistol, and a host of other good products are out there. Just remove whatever you use for storage before you go shooting!

 

[MikeWoodyard]

The "petroleum based" thing is nonsense. Why would using a mineral oil (made from from animal and plant matter by mother nature) be worse than using something like Bore Butter (made from animal and plant matter by man)? Best thing to use is hot soapy water followed by CLP, which is designed to work with blackpowder, since modern artillery uses a substantial blackpowder charge to ignite the bags of propellant, and CLP is used to clean everything from sidearms to cannon in the military.

 

[Zonie]

MikeW: Welcome to the forum.

As for Bore Butter and the similar lubes many black powder shooters use is concerned, it does not use a petroleum based oil. It uses a vegetable oil (Olive Oil) and the vegetable oils don't cause the black powder fouling to form the very hard (and hard to remove) layer that things like motor oil (or other petroleum oils) will make.

Perhaps you've had good luck in your guns with a true petroleum oil in the bore and this hard fouling didn't form but many of us who have been shooting for many years have seen it happen in our own guns.

Oils that don't form hard fouling are Olive Oil, Corn Oil, Caster Oil.....

zonie

 

[MikeWoodyard]

Thanks. I used to use Crisco to lube the bore and as a patch lube until I noticed rust stains on a clean patch used to swab out the bore before going shooting. Since I started using CLP I have had no further problems. I even use CLP as a patch lube. Works great, and I've had no trouble with hard fouling, but then again, I use Pyrodex, not BP.

 

[ss1]

I use Break Free, any good gun oil will work with 777. Have not had any problems from rust. I like 777, cleans up easy as BP and I can't shoot the difference. AND it is NOT an explosve ! Does anyone really think, that in todays world, if your home burns, and you have several pounds of Black Power that goes off, that your INSURANCE company will pay off! Maybe in 5 to 10 years. By then , your lawyers fee will be as much as pay off. Will you ever be able to get house insurance again ? Try to get your Ins. co, to put in writting, that you can store 5 to 10 pounds [ or any amount]of exploxvs, on your property. They have thier on set of rules.

 

[MikeWoodyard]

BreakFree Carbon Cutter will take that hard fouling out in an instant. If you use BreakFree CLP in your bore from that point on, it will not let hard fouling adhere to the inside of the barrel.

I wonder where 'ol Davy Crockett got his olive oil from? Maybe from all those Tennessee olive tree plantations...or where they cotton...hmmm.

 

[Rat Trapper]

I was given a bottle of Knight oil with the purchase of a rifle from one of our sales reps. It's a very light oil. When I want to use one of my rifles I just wipe the bore and load. Have not had any point of impact problems either. Since I have not had any rust problems using it in the last five years I plan to stick with it. Good part is it will take a very long time to use up all the oil that comes in one of those bottles. I have talked to customers who did not oil the bore and have had rust problems. So I would recommend you use some kind of oil.