Grease Holes?

[azmntman]

I wouldnt mind a grease hole! After all I am older now and now longer hunt or shoot in huricanes :rotf:

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

I'm thinking with a grease hole, I won't be bothered with patches being leached of grease into the hunting bag as like what happens now with mine. I'll just keep the raw cut patches in the bag and pull them out, grease them as I go.

 

[coloradoclyde]

For my other guns that don't have a grease hole, I keep my lube in a small round tin in my bag....I usually don't pre-lube my patches but I do keep several in the tin with the lube so I don't have to dig for patches, just the lube....

 

[Black Hand]

I'm thinking with a grease hole, I won't be bothered with patches being leached of grease into the hunting bag as like what happens now with mine. I'll just keep the raw cut patches in the bag and pull them out, grease them as I go.

I keep my pre-cut, pre-greased patches in a rectangular metal tin in my bag. Never had any problem with leakage (even in 80-90F temperatures) and I don't waste time greasing one-by-one when shooting (I make 50-100 patches at a time). Great time-saver.

Personally, I'm concerned about grease-holes. If the depression is not well-sealed, grease could infiltrate the wood and eventually break down the fibers. While I understand they were used, they seem like an all-around bad idea...

 

[coloradoclyde]

If the depression is not well-sealed, grease could infiltrate the wood and eventually break down the fibers.

Hence, my repeated mention of using beeswax in the mix...Beeswax will last a 1000 years............I also pour the hole full of melted lube....A person will not live long enough to see breakdown of the wood unless they use something nasty for lube like petroleum products...

Take advice from people who actually use a grease hole....Not those who think it is a bad idea, and don't use one....

If you don't want to use a grease hole or have fears.....Use a grease tin.

 

[Mean Gene]

:shocked2: Much to my surprise while attending a famly get together in Columbia state park , I came upon a 45 caliber long rifle with a grease hole in the stock. It was on display in a glass cabinet in the town museum, when I saw it I was reminded of this conversation on the forum.
The gun was dated to 1790 and originally was manufactured as a flintlock but in 1840 it was converted to percussion.
The only manufacturer name I could find was on the lock, UGHIN BAUGH DAYTON OHIO.

 

[Vaino]

These are purely my thoughts asre "grease holes". If by chance I purchased a MLer that had one, I'd make a permanent inlay and cover it up. On a new built MLer, would never ever think about defacing a buttstock. But,if one wants a "grease hole" then one should have one.

I was mainly a hunter and irrespective of the game being hunted, a loading block was always used....even the few times that I shot at the range. By the way.....paper powder packets dipped in canning wax were always used and were opened w/ the teeth....just keeping things simple.....Fred

 

[hanshi]

Never liked them and never will. :slap:

 

[Elnathan]

Personally, I'm concerned about grease-holes. If the depression is not well-sealed, grease could infiltrate the wood and eventually break down the fibers. While I understand they were used, they seem like an all-around bad idea...

If you are using animal fats, I don't believe that the fibers would break down.

 

[Tom Compton]

Trash in the grease of holes is great reason for having a cover. Poor boy/SMR/ barn guns etc by definition had as little $ invested as possible. Fancier more expensive guns had patch box covers.

Tru to the theme my SMR has no grease hole or patch box.
TC

 

[BrownBear]

Trash in the grease of holes is great reason for having a cover. Poor boy/SMR/ barn guns etc by definition had as little $ invested as possible. Fancier more expensive guns had patch box covers.

Tru to the theme my SMR has no grease hole or patch box.
TC

I've seriously considered putting lube in a patch box for that specific reason. It would certainly simplify my lubing and cutting patches at the muzzle. I'm not enough of a historitician to know if that was done, but it would sure facilitate my loading.

 

[Mean Gene]

I have carried lubed patches in my patch box and it worked quite well for that, however for reasons brought up earlier I would be concerned about damaging the wood by just filling it with lube.

 

[BrownBear]

Trash in the grease of holes is great reason for having a cover. Poor boy/SMR/ barn guns etc by definition had as little $ invested as possible. Fancier more expensive guns had patch box covers.

Tru to the theme my SMR has no grease hole or patch box.
TC

I've seriously considered putting lube in a patch box for that specific reason. It would certainly simplify my lubing and cutting patches at the muzzle. I'm not enough of a historitician to know if that was done, but it would sure facilitate my loading.

Just found this interesting photo of an open Leman patchbox, which appears to be packed with grease. Maybe I'm not so far off....

 

[hanshi]

Some really strange things have been found in old patchboxes. I think often they were used to carry about anything useful that would fit.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

It appears grease holes are polarizing. Some hate them, others who use them like having them.

 

[BrownBear]

Yup. I'd use one if it was covered, in light of the terrain I hunt. Gonna try using the patch box for lube on a new rifle I'm working with, as well as a couple of older ones that have been hanging around with the patch box empty.

 

[coloradoclyde]

It appears grease holes are polarizing. Some hate them, others who use them like having them.

Yep!...people that don't use one, don't like them... :haha:

That's it, in a nutshell.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Thanks, Clyde. Well I hope to use mine.