Bore Butter

[patriot59]

I have been using Bore Butter as lube for my patches and on the threads of my flintlock screws and as an overall protectant for several years, recently I have noticed it does not seem to be working as well as it used to(patches dry out,spots of rust)---my son-in-law has experienced the same thing.

Anyone else experience this? I have not changed my cleaning procedures, nor has my son-in-law.

 

[roundball]

Anyone else experience this?

So far I haven't...used it for 16-17 years in a number of MLs.

I have bought some very old bags of prelubed TC patches on an auction where I thought they didn't have enough lube in them so I microwave melted some more into them from a tube.

Also, TCs "cleaning & seasoning" patches don't have enough lube to suit me...even when new...and I always plaster the bore and the lube patch heavily with extra NL1000 out of a tube.

IMO, rust usually only starts one of two ways:

There was either some sort of contamination or moisture still in/on the steel and it was covered over with lube;

Or there was not a thick enough coating/covering of lube maintained on 100% of the 100% clean steel surface so that moisture in the air finally got to the metal.

 

[jtmattison]

Maybe they changed their formula

I haven't had a problem with the BB I bought a couple years ago. However, I mostly use my homemade lube so the BB has limited use here.

HD

 

[Stubert]

I used to use bore butter, I think they may have changed somthing in the formula. My patches started blowing all of a sudden, so I switched to Crisco. With no other changes they come out reusable

 

[Kentuckywindage]

i just bought a package of TC prelubed Bore butter patches and they were darn near dry. Luckily i had some bore butter in a tube so i just squeezed some into a #11 percussion tin, put my patches in, closed the lid and held the little tin over a candle flame to melt the bore butter into the patches. From now on im just going to buy non lubed and do it myself.

 

[Stubert]

I put a tablespoon of Crisco in a pan and heat it until liquid, I hold the dry patch with a tweezer and touch it to the melted Crisco and it will wick onto the patch, then set them on a newspaper to dry and harden.You can do a bunch in about 3 minutes. I have used them in the cold and the summer.

 

[rebel727]

I put a tablespoon of Crisco in a pan and heat it until liquid, I hold the dry patch with a tweezer and touch it to the melted Crisco and it will wick onto the patch, then set them on a newspaper to dry and harden.You can do a bunch in about 3 minutes. I have used them in the cold and the summer.

Don't they get messy in the summer?