Home brew lubes

[bart_anastasi]

I just feel when I am shooting my rifle and i am using rb's or Maxi's I Made Myself or square patches and the thing works.

People at the club range point out how their round patches are more balistically whatever that I am missing something. Or any roundball product will work.

Well I have sprew on every ball I send down range and they shoot fine thanks. My maxi's sometimes come out of the mold with a raised bottom which I call a Boat Tail to keep them happy.

Whatever turns you on but I make my own braided bowstrings, dip ceadar arrow blank shafts I bought back in 1980, I found out a neet way to cut my shafts with my boy scout knife by roleing the shaft on a flat surface and pressing the sharp blade against the shaft making a neat clean cut.


My wife calls me a shoemaker when I am down in the bassement working on stuff.

Well just call me Gapetto. For me it is not the destination so much as the trip.

 

[bwhoffman]

Forgive me for asking but Why? Man there are so many great products on the market I have to wonder if your board or Am I missing somthing?

The ONLY things I dont make personally are.... caps and powder. Not because I have to, but because I want to.
for me, thats what a big part of this"hobby of ours" is all about!

 

[sidelock]

Me to. Well said. I make all my stuff xsept cap and BP and I like it all better than boughten and it sure works good. :thumbsup:

 

[Mike 56]

I am kinda of new around here i started out as a milsurp guy that shoots some black powder that is turning in to be a black power guy that has some milsurps. Since i started hanging around this forum i find myself walking though fabric stores with calipers. Buying shooting supplies from drug stores. Mixing all kinds of lubes and cleaners. Making patch, lube and wad containers out of tins out of tins with torch and some oil. Made my first knife with Green river blank. Last time i went to the range i brought a bucket full stuff to try wax ring, Windex, Go Jo hand cleaner, windshield washer fluid and Moose juice. Now i am looking for some cane to make some measures. Isn't this a great hobby. I am grateful for the wealth of knowledge that this forum has.

Mike

 

[BrownBear]

There's some spirit and commitment involved here, too. This is what I mean:

On another general forum guys in the muzzleloader section were complaining about bad performance from Powerbelts, then drifted off into discussion of an assortment of sabot loads. I posted the observation that for the price of one pack of those bullets they could get a Lee mold for conicals or about twice that for a Lyman, then cast their own for about a nickel apiece based on $1 a pound lead. With mold in hand, $15 worth of lead translates into 300 350 grain conicals.

A guy responded back that it wasn't a good investment because he only shot ten or fifteen shots a year.

And I bet he calls himself a muzzleloader, too. :bull:

 

[paulvallandigham]

/At least the guy has identified the TRUE source of his problems, even if he doesn't see it. :surrender: :thumbsup:

 

[Zonie]

Not only did he identify the problem, if he only shoots 15 shots a year, he will never fix it either and I doubt he will ever figure out why.
:shake:

 

[Russianblood]

I've used Stumpy's Moose Juice for a while now but I find myself gravitating toward plain old olive oil for lube when the shooting is fast and furious (our club's woods walk).