crisco as patch lube

[BrownBear]

range report... well I tryied it and it worked out fine. in my traddtions kentucky pistol with 15 grains of pyro P. and a cast .490 ball and a .010 cotton patch lubed with crisco, I shot at all 15 targets with out wiping the bore. I only missed 3.(one of the best shoots I ever did!)
out of my cva st.louis hawken .54 40 grains of pyro P. a cast .530 ball same .010 patch lubed with crisco. shot 20 shots with no problems. scored 105 on agerget. at 25 yards. just missed the meat shoot,(one shot at 25 yards at a 3 inch black dot) and fun shoot I did ok. shoots were to the right a bit think I was pulling off. ok what I did was melt the crisco in a small sause pan on the stove over low heat till it melted. then I dipped the patches in it. then let them air dry and thicken up. I have tried bore butter with mixed resalts. love olive oil but it's getting spendy. tried corn oil worked ok but made clean up a paine in the butt. and I tried 3 rivers cleaner/patch lube with realy good resalts. but if you leave a ball and patch lubed with it in the gun for to long you HAVE to pull it! it kills the powder. oh I for got clean up with the crisco was the same as olive oil. ok. will I still use crisco? maybe. have to try it in wamer weather first like 80 + out.

My only experience with it was carrying a little tin of it for lubing patches in the field as I needed them. It was fine and dandy in cooler weather, but as summer came on I learned it got real slobbery and all over everything when things warmed up. Warm being 70 degrees! :rotf:

I'd go back to it for prelubing I think, but as someone on here reported, using something to squeegee off as much excess as possible while it was warm. Someone also suggested using the liquid version, and that really has my attention.

I'm not prone to water-based lubes, but any grease has potential for me and is worth a try. If a guy tries it and doesn't like it, what's he out? A tablespoon of cheap cooking grease? Heck, you get more than that with an order of fries.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I don't share the opinion that anything that will lube the bore works about the same as any other patch lube. I've played around with a number of lubes. My personal experience is that some will yield tighter groups than others.

I agree. A lube can help you five ways:

Convenient to obtain and use.

Provide some rust protection before or after a shot.

Produce more consistant accuracy (including first "cold" shot in the group).

Allow multiple shots without needing to wipe (I'll include ease of loading here - some like me would rather not need a seperate short starter and certainly not a mallet).

Reduce effort at time of clean-up.


When you find one that does all five, and yields the best accuracy, you are gold. Any three is a good lube. Any four is a great lube. And one lube will not have the same characteristics for different barrels (or shooters). We all use lube differently and have different expectations. Some folks are willing to put up with a lot more mess and/or hassle than others. And the fellow standing and shooting from the bag has different needs than a guy with a loading stand and a work table available.

 

[hanshi]

I started off using spit patch for prb and a mixture using Crisco for minnies. Crisco is NOT at the bottom of the list; that position belongs to salt pork fat! :hatsoff:

 

[Berk]

I don't know what a displaced hoosier realy knows about lube but in this case I thiknk he has a point. I have used Balistol and it works great and it is probably good for the bore of your rifle being a lube but I still use spit because it is handy. By the way Bill if your not doing anything this weekend we are haveing a work day at the club. :wink:

 

[nkbj]

Loretta Lynn always said it was good and I never found reason to doubt her.