Bullet Lube Recipes

[Crow-Feather]

Welcome to the forum, @Thekingd93 !

I remember reading a while back in the memoirs of a leading shooting expert how he got his start in reloading, using black powder for an S&W double action .44 Special unmentionable. He made a viscous slurry of Ivory soap, swished his home-cast bullets in it, and let them dry.

Notchy Bob

I bet that he had the cleanest bore in the country!!!

 

[Redlemur60]

Crisco w a touch of bore butter
And a little beezwax to stiffen

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Casting some Lee R.E.A.L 250 grain bullets for my TC Hawken .50 cal. Looking to make a batch of homemade bullet lube. I've seen all kinds of methods on YouTube, melting wax toilet rings, mixing Vaseline with bees wax and crayons in a pot. What is the cheapest and most readily available recipe with household ingredients? I have allot of grease in the drip bucket on my bbq smoker maybe that will work if I heat it up and filter out the small food particles with cheesecloth? Grease is Grease to me.

Honestly…my personal favorite lube for conical bullets is 2/3 lambs tallow & 1/3 bees wax.

For patched round balls, I use moose milk, great for target shooting in mild weather and hunting in early fall…but when it gets cold, when it’s deep winter, and I’m hunting…I use that same ole lambs tallow & bees wax recipe as a patch lube…so yeah, there yuh go…