Crisco over the chambers, pros and cons

[BlackRock52]

Where do you get your beeswax from? I’m running low.

Craft/hobby stores -- Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. Any candle making shop. There a couple of apiaries here that sell bee products at the Farmers market and have said they will sell beeswax - cheaper if it's 'dirty' (needs to be melted and filtered) .. Got my last pound at Hobby Lobby for around 15 or 16 dollars for a pound. Those beeswax beads are easier to use and just saw an ad on Amazon for 1 pound of beads for $14 and 2 1# blocks for $20.
Link for the last is: https://smile.amazon.com/Beesworks-...8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

 

[TDM]

Craft/hobby stores -- Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. Any candle making shop. There a couple of apiaries here that sell bee products at the Farmers market and have said they will sell beeswax - cheaper if it's 'dirty' (needs to be melted and filtered) .. Got my last pound at Hobby Lobby for around 15 or 16 dollars for a pound. Those beeswax beads are easier to use and just saw an ad on Amazon for 1 pound of beads for $14 and 2 1# blocks for $20.
Link for the last is: https://smile.amazon.com/Beesworks-...8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

All good to know. Guess I need to get out more. Thanks.

 

[Stantheman86]

I like Burt's Bees in the tin as an all around lube but it's too expensive to slather on revolver cylinders

 

[ernbar]

Too messy and greasy, better off with pre lubed wads. Crisco melts with heat and is blown off the adjacent chamber from the blast smearing it on the gun.

 

[NorthFork]

I don’t like crisco because it’s too runny on its own with any kind of warm or hot weather. It’s cheap and comes in a huge can, so maybe that’s a pro. The ingredients list citric acid, so that’s probably not great to put in contact with your gun though.

https://crisco.com/product/all-vegetable-shortening/

Citric acid is nothing to worry about. Does not attack steel under NORMAL circumstances. I use it to clean rusty steel/iron all the time. It will (under the right conditions) remove rust but leave the parent stee/iron unharmed.

 

[NorthFork]

Thank You

I love the .44 Navy "fantasy guns", I've owned several of them , both steel and brass framed.

This one is super accurate, along with the new Dance Brothers. Pietta is doing something right because every new Pietta I've gotten shoots like a laser

Yup, no short arbors and overall Pietta's shot wonderfully.

 

[NorthFork]

I used to think they were junk back in the early 2000s , I had them that had out of alignment chambers, over running the bolt stops, peened up wedge slots , etc and Uberti was "the good ones" . But now the tables kinda turned and Piettas are the out of the box shooters now and they also look better, the finish is on par with Uberti now. That Pietta Dance and Brothers shot a baseball sized group at 50 yards , one handed on my very first cylinder with it

I agree. I keep telling folks that Pietta has surpassed Uberti SLIGHTLY in the last few years. But folks keep wanting to believe it's still the 1990's.

 

[springfield art]

I recall Crisco use many years ago; too runny as another poster said. Wouldn't bother with it now.

 

[Bunk]

I recall Crisco use many years ago; too runny as another poster said. Wouldn't bother with it now.

Also my experience when I started BP shooting it was with an original 1851 Colt Navy using Du Pont powder and corrosive chlorate caps, which was very long time ago.
Crisco covering everything gun, hands, surroundings.
No more, to keep fouling soft a heavily lubricated felt wad goes over the GOEX powder and a tight fitting ball on top lighted off with a non corrosive, tight fitting, cap.
FYI I am a depression baby born in that November, and nice planning on my parents part.
I am old and creaky but still shooting once the temperature gets under 90, not today though it is 102 outside now in central Texas.
I am
Saying cool
Bunk

 

[M. De Land]

Also my experience when I started BP shooting it was with an original 1851 Colt Navy using Du Pont powder and corrosive chlorate caps, which was very long time ago.
Crisco covering everything gun, hands, surroundings.
No more, to keep fouling soft a heavily lubricated felt wad goes over the GOEX powder and a tight fitting ball on top lighted off with a non corrosive, tight fitting, cap.
FYI I am a depression baby born in that November, and nice planning on my parents part.
I am old and creaky but still shooting once the temperature gets under 90, not today though it is 102 outside now in central Texas.
I am
Saying cool
Bunk

I too have switched to felt wads soaked in Bees wax with a bit of bear grease added of late. Five decades of Crisco or Bore butter over the balls has pretty much come to an end.
I only shoot balls in percussion revolvers but If I were to use conicals I would lube them with the same Mathews lube I have used for years in y rifle grease groove bullets. I make my own lube of Bees wax, Murphy's oil soap and Neatsfoot oil (Mathew's lube) which works well in hot or cold weather. I have recently substituted the Bear grease for the Neatsfoot in the recipe.

 

[Bunk]

I too have switched to felt wads soaked in Bees wax with a bit of bear grease added of late. Five decades of Crisco or Bore butter over the balls has pretty much come to an end.
I only shoot balls in percussion revolvers but If I were to use conicals I would lube them with the same Mathews lube I have used for years in y rifle grease groove bullets. I make my own lube of Bees wax, Murphy's oil soap and Neatsfoot oil (Mathew's lube) which works well in hot or cold weather. I have recently substituted the Bear grease for the Neatsfoot in the recipe.

being fugal, tight, cheap (choose one) my choice is the Eras Gone (Mark Hubbs)
one ounce of unsalted lard and four ounces (one bar) of Gulf Wax just common canning wax.
I have also used beeswax with lard and it works just as well. Never bleeds oil.
There are as many mixtures for bullets or wads as there are shooters so go with what works for you.
Respectfully
bunk