Interesting to note that I tested a different product called Frog Lube which was alleged to provide a marked increase in lubricity over other products. When used as a lubricant on modern weapons, I found it to make the operations much smoother which seemed to support their claim of increased lubricity. I wanted to see what it would do to the performance of my muzzleloading rifles when used as a patch lubricant. My finding was that the increased lubricity resulted in lower muzzle velocities when compared to spit as a patch lubricant. I compared it to spit simply because my rifle seemed to be at its most accurate when I used spit as a patch lubricant. When spit was used, my MV was 1266 fps averaged over 10 shots with a std. dev. of 32 fps. I used my chronograph to measure the muzzle velocities. The Frog Lube, with its greater lubricity gave me an average MV of 1179 fps with a std. dev.of 51 fps. My assumption is that the slicker Frog Lube allows the ball to start moving sooner and that results in a lower breach pressure. The lower breach pressure results in a lower MV. Because the ball starts to move sooner, there is less consistency in the resultant breach pressure which accounts for the greater std. dev. in the MV when using Frog Lube. My conclusion is that the results of this test support what Dutch Schoultz says about how patch lubes can be too slick. Frog Lube is great stuff and does all the things that the manufacturer says it does but it is too slick to be a good patch lube for muzzleloaders.
Well, Dutch, it seems that you're right again. :hatsoff:
