How's about shareing some of your secrets

[Doe]

I want to start makeing my own lube for PRB, what is in your opinion.. the best and easyest as far as getting the material to make your lube for your PRB and please tell me what kinda of range temp.. it good for? I already have two from (stumpkiller) :thumbsup: "Moose juice&Moose snot" :grin:

 

[Brik847]

I don't have anything new to share, but I did make some moose juice and "juiced" some patches. It really made a difference for me as far as my shooting yesterday. Easy, cheap, and pre-lubed patches save a little time.

 

[boar]

Heres one I used over 20yrs. Shoot a nice fat groundhog in Sept or later, render all the fat,mix with beeswax till it won't run in hot weather. Now it stays oil at room temp. Good for leather. Keep in freezer till you need it. What I use now is deer tallow, don't have to mix any thing in it. Bear oil is real good but not allowed to shoot them. We have bears, one had its picture in the Minerva paper,3 miles away in July. Dilly

 

[Keppy]

Nothing new just olive oil and bee's wax. Hunting in the cold weather I just use olive oil. You may want to test diffrent ones in the freezer as I did.

 

[RC]

ball lube? well for shootin at the range ..spit patch..far as hunting i use beargrease beeswax but hard to find (unless ya know someone!) otherwise the oliveoil,,would be good..besides stumpy's stuff... :thumbsup:

 

[spitpatch]

Keep it simple, at the range spitpatch. If you must make your own one that works great in all weather conditions--melt about 1/4 stick of SPG or Lyman black powder gold bullet lub, mix in about 3 more parts of olive oil let it jell up and you are ready, works great.

 

[BrownBear]

I'm experimenting now with a blend of deer tallow and olive oil. A two parts tallow/one part olive oil mix produces something about like vaseline at room temp. Three parts tallow to one part olive oil gives you something stiffer- somewhere between paste shoe polish and tub margarine. Great accuracy with both using pillow ticking, either prelube or lubed and cut at the bore.

Actually pretty easy to make up once you render the deer fat to make tallow. Good thread going right now on it in the Accessory section. Others have found some neat tins for storing it in, but so far I've been pouring it hot into Copenhagen cans and letting it harden. Can't argue with the cheap side, and it's sure nice to find a way to use more of the deer I shoot.

 

[bwhoffman]

This is a question that comes up very often here,and we get a bazzillion different replys with as many different answers....and they all work!

I wont go into what lubes I use, but I will say that what I use does satisfy me requirements of a patch lube and it works for me.

as far as getting lubes into your patches....I have hade great success with putting lubes into a small pot or empty tin can, heating them up on a wood stove or in the microwave, running a needle and thread thru stacks of patches and soaking them to saturate and then squeeze them to remove the excess. worked for me.

 

[paulvallandigham]

Read Dutch Schoulz' Black Powder Rifle Accuracy System and his " dry lube " formula, and see the results that he gets. I think you will have a better idea of what works, and WHY. There is some variation of what works best based on temperature and humidity levels, but they all seem to work well, when used properly.
[url] http://www.blackpowderrifleaccuracy.com[/url]/

 

[Ridge]

Olive oil and bees wax for me. I use it year round with no problems.

I mix it at a 3 part oil to one part wax consistancy.

 

[oldwolf]

I'm using Crisco in my felt wads for my Cap 'n Ball revolvers, and it is working well.

For my rifles, I have a stash of T/C .015 patches with T/C 1000 lube at the moment but plan to try Criso and WalMart Pillow Ticking real soon.

 

[Claude Mathis]

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/203261/

 

[jtmattison]

Beeswax and olive oil. Mixed thicker in summer, thinner in winter.

HD

 

[Isiah1103]

Well.... I made some patch lube once out of Crisco and something else (can't remember now what else) and prelubed a bunch of cotton patches. It was a mess! Froze together in winter and was messy in summer. I couldn't get them apart any time of the year. How do you dry those patches enough to keep from sticking together?

 

[jtmattison]

Well.... I made some patch lube once out of Crisco and something else (can't remember now what else) and prelubed a bunch of cotton patches. It was a mess! Froze together in winter and was messy in summer. I couldn't get them apart any time of the year. How do you dry those patches enough to keep from sticking together?

My patches don't freeze with beeswax and olive oil.

HD

 

[Isiah1103]

What's your mix?

 

[rabjr]

I dip patches in a 65% bear oil, 35% beeswax mix and scrap off the excess. Stack the patches in a container and this sets ups just enough so that the patches peel off and is not messy really at all. Works for me. :thumbsup:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

you might consider giving Go-Jo white hand cleaner a try or any of the other 2-3 brands. get the white tub. if you don't like it you can always use to clean up with.

 

[mike alexandre]

Stumpies stuff - its as good as most and better than a lot of the commercial stuff