If I ever use up all the bore butter I have, I will be using Moose snot. When I lube patches, I lube one side, then stick another patch on the lubed one, and lube the other side of that next patch. I continue doing this until I have a stack of a dozen or more patches. They then go into the microwave oven and I zap them in 5 second bursts until I see the lube coming through that top side that I didn't lube. Then I check the bottom patch, and if the lube has not yet come through that patch, I put the stack back in the oven and zap it again a time or two.
You will find that getting the lube to penetrate completely through the cotton fibers of the patch makes for a more consistent patch/ball load. By heating the patches up( you can put them out in direct sunlight to achieve the same thing as I do with the microwave) you evenly distribute the lube, and any excess is either shared with patching that has too little, or melts in to the plate on which you put the stack. The melted lube can be used to grease a few more patches( Boy, am I CHEAP! :rotf: :surrender: :thumbsup: )
This does require you to do all that greasing of patching material a day or so before you go out to the range.
When I began shooting, I had Hoppe's #9 Black Solve and cleaner, or SPIT. Since I was mostly shooting club matches, I put the pre-cut patches in my mouth to wet them with spit. The Hoppes was only use in the field, and I found that a more solid lube was much less likely to spoil my powder charge over hours of hunting without shooting, than does a liquid lube. I also found that a spit patch, left in the barrel too long, would cause rust to form where it contacted the bore.
I still use spit on the range when I know I am going to shoot the shot soon,-- within a minute or two-- but I don't use spit any more when hunting. Bore butter does a much better job. Moose snot will do just as well, and its cheaper! :blah: :hatsoff:
