Carrying patch grease.

[coloradoclyde]

Copenhagen works best in Thompson Center (most models). Grizzly long cut DARK wintergreen will give the best results on Traditions (all but KY rifle which like Grizzly Wintergreen "regular", or mint. For the best results on CVA tests have shown Skoal Xtra peach will group better than most. For the smoothys a great BIG wad of redman gold will seal better than the canned stuff. :slap:

:shocked2: You are exactly right....

 

[Crewdawg445]

Haha, very nice!

 

[SgtErv]

:rotf: Exactly! I don't use Copenhagen regularly, but at the range I do. Probably one of the reasons I don't use spit patches

 

[BrownBear]

That's how you can tell a guy's got his head screwed on straight.

There's snoose drooling out both sides of his mouth. :grin:

 

[Twisted_1in66]

I've used Stumpy's Moose Snot for my patch lube for ~15-years. It doesn't turn into cement in below zero temps (lived in Vermont then) and it doesn't turn to liquid during hot southern summers (lived in VA for 10-years).

I store mine in some old Altoid tins (before they started embossing them) that have been taken down to the bare tin by burning the paint off. Makes a good seal yet can easily open them and I never lose the lid because it's attached.

I cut my patch material into strips and I rub it in the moose snot until it starts coming through the other side - you can feel it with your finger. I then cut it at the muzzle. If I don't use enough, it doesn't load as easily and I just make a point of using more on the next patch to keep it going smoothly for as long as I need to keep shooting.

Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
Dan

 

[tenngun]

Old cap tins tossed in the fire to blacken. I have a german silver pill box from ted cash in one of my bags.

 

[nhmoose]

:hatsoff:

Old cap tins tossed in the fire to blacken. I have a german silver pill box from ted cash in one of my bags.

 

[AZbpBurner]

AZBPburner
Bravo,
You have figured out how to alter the amount of lubricaps. I used water and Ballistol (or water soluble oil).
I had long thought of using alcohol instead of water but wasn't certain of the effect of alcohol on the lubricant.

Your method would dry faster than mine but is essentially the same method.
The point of both methods is to lubricate every inch of your patching strip exactly the same from one end to the other.

Dutch

Yep, You've been a true inspiration! I figgered that the Old Dog has got to have something in his tried and true procedures, but I'm just not a Ballistol fan. Castor Oil is vastly superior to my 200 year old tallow & beeswax mix, and those dry patches allow nearly a days' worth shooting without enough fouling accumulation to need to swab the bore more than a couple of times.

I know some folks are adverse to Castor Oil (bad childhood memories?) & I've been thinking about finding a way to dissolve olive oil - denatured alcohol doesn't work, so maybe I'll try some napthaline, once I've finished cleaning some pocket watch movements with it ...

 

[Dr5x]

I have just had a report that Ballistol is reluctant to blend with alcohol.
So back to distilled water.

Dutch

 

[jbwilliams3]

In cooler temps, for hunting, I carry a small tin snuff box. For reenacting/living history presentation purposes I have a hot dipped tin snuff box made in the 18th century manner. Just as effective, I have used old pellet cans with the paint burned off. For hot temps and most shooting, I just use spit. It’s free and usually available. And you can certainly use spit with both precut patches and a strip which you cut at the muzzle.

 

[azmntman]

I have just had a report that Ballistol is reluctant to blend with alcohol.
So back to distilled water.

Dutch

Why distilled? I been using tap water :idunno:

 

[Dr5x]

In Dive Bomber school in the 40's there was a thing called target hypnosis where a pilot would concentrate so strongly on the target he would forget to pull out and fly right into the target. Sort of an unintentional Kamikase attack.
I apparently did much the same thing. I was concentrating so hard on how to make a Ballistol and water mix when the water was harder than high school and won't allow the Ballistol or Water soluble oil to blend freely with the water.
Seeveral other good folks were talking about using alcohol instead of the water and a friend in Independence, MO tried a variety of alcohols with no success, so I was reporting on that, thus creating a mystery.
I used tap water in all my experiments ,but I am not certain that it would have worked when I was a lad in Omaha, Nebraska, where soaps and detergents were reluctant to work well with the water available at that time.

Tap water is fine if there is no problem getting a good blend.

Alcohol, incidentally, is an Arab word. And they don't use it.

Dutch

 

[azmntman]

Though we have soft water here (in Gods Country where is was 73 degrees and probably 12% humidity yesterday :grin: ) I will try some distilled, may work even better?