CRISCO anyone?

I have been reading a lot, and for quite some time, about various home brewed concoctions and commercial lubes and taking Roundballs advise I thought I would start a thread on the use of good old CRISCO as a darned good, and cheap, patch lube. It's easy to use, keeps the fouling nice and soft, permits many loadings without cleaning and does not freeze up in cold weather. Also, it does not smell like Ben-Gay! I understand about the chemist in a lot of us that likes to mix stuff and that's cool and kind of fun. But lowly CRISCO gets overlooked as a a readily available and useful lube and I guess I don't understand why. Maybe it's just not fun?

 

[rabjr]

I used it back in the early 80's when I was messing around with a zouave. Worked fine but a little goes a long way. If your not careful it turns the breech area into soup. I just found it a little to wet to use after a while and switched to something else.

 

[Mike 56]

I don't use it for a patch lube anymore. Not that it is a bad lube i just found better ones. It is one of the ingreatence for my wad lube. I like to use it for revolver over the ball lube on dry hot days. After i clean my black powder guns i dry them in the oven on the lowest setting with the door cracked open then rub them down with Crisco.

Mike

 

[Dickert54cal]

Only the UNSALTED version of this or any other lube used.....SALT=RUSTED BARREL :cursing:

 

[Dickert54cal]

The best one Ive come across thus far is the ORIGINAL LEGHIGH VALLEY PATCH LUBE. :thumbsup: Im on my last bottle now. :hatsoff:

 

[Zonie]

Crisco doesn't cost $6.95 for a 4 ounces and it doesn't come in a neat yellow tube so there is no way it can be as good as the factory made stuff.

Not only that but, Crisco is made for making girl stuff like cookies and cakes and pies. Putting that kind of stuff into a muzzleloading gun is just plain wrong.

Well, OK. I'll admit that I use it in my C&B revolvers to grease the front of the loaded chambers. OK, I've used it in my other muzzleloaders too.
Sheeeze. OK, it does work all right but there must be a reason folks don't want to use it.

Maybe it is to keep the wife from saying things like,
"WHO THE HELL HAS BEEN INTO MY CRISCO? HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING MY CRISCO INTO THAT DAMN GUN AGAIN?" :rotf:

 

[Dickert54cal]

Now that is funny---- :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :applause:

 

[roundball]

"...it does not smell like Ben-Gay..."

Easy to fix...just buy a little bottle of the ingredient at the store and mix it into some crisco...
:grin:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I HAVE USED IT DEACON, along with other lubes including goose rendered fat, coon rendered fat and so on. it does OK and I would say it's good for a newbie.
myself I use Go-Jo white hand cleaner for PRB, lil' dab' will do ya'.!

 

[ohio ramrod]

Turner Kirkland recommend crisco in the sixties and many still use it. Myself I used it for several years and found it worked well in cool weather , but got awful thin in hot weather. I now use a mixture of saltfree lard and beeswax above freezing and pure lard below freezing.

 

[cowpoke1955]

I've used Crisco in the past. Works OK for patch lube. I've even used it to lube REAL bullets on cool days. Forget it on a hot day. On my C&B revolvers, it's good for one shot. The first shot will melt the Crisco in the other chambers creating one greesy mess. A long time ago, I read about using corn meal as a filler between the powder and ball. I tried it with Crisco as lube. It smelled like fresh baked corn bread going down range :rotf: .

 

[Dickert54cal]

PUTS A WHOLE NEW MEANING ON POP CORN TOO!
:rotf: :rotf:

 

[buttonbuck]

Crisco why not but is sure is satisfying to use something you rendered from a critter you harvested. I used it on REAL bullets works good but messy.

 

[gwilliams]

I shot about 30 rounds in my new .36 Bobcat today and the last one went in as easy as the fist one , crisco all the way. Cheap and it's always in her kitchen cabinet :thumbsup: .

 

[bebloomster]

When making up paper cartridges for my Brown Bess I dip the ball end of the cartridge in melted Crisco. Works the best of anything I've tried so far.

 

[redwing]

Too Damn Messy in hot weather. But it makes the best pie crust. :rotf:

 

[mike alexandre]

If you use Crisco as a lube in a muzzle loader does that make it fast food :blah:

 

[2172]

I used it to seal the chambers in my Remington repro revolver...I finally stopped, as smelled like baking and I was getting hungry...Hank

 

[jbwilliams3]

I concur with all the above about hot weather. It's very messy, but it works okay otherwise in mild weather.

 

[Bob Riegl]

:hmm: Messy stuff IMHO any time---I've seen the results watching C&B revolvers---a slithering mess---and makes the gun tougher to clean.Yuch, yuck, pooy, pooy--- :thumbsup: