mink oil from TOTW

[fillwa]

TOTW Mink Oil works as a patch lube.
I pre-lubed a bunch of patches. After sitting in a container for a while they smelled rancid. The container was not air tight.

Since then I have switched to using cheap blue windshield washing fluid.
Pre-lubing is easy: In water tight container add patches, pour in fluid, shake.

 

[babstooge]

If you want to blow your mother board search patch lube. I've used a bunch they all have one thing in common, they're all natural oils and greases. Some I've experimented with are better than others.I think it's like working up a load ,sometimes the gun will let you know. my 36 cal likes mink oil, the 45cal like moose milk,the 50 cals like balistol mixture presoaked patches. all blue pillow ticking. Bruce

 

[tenngun]

Patchlubes are the difference between shooting a five shot 45, and a five shot 49 two x
Whip me with my own ramrod but in general shooting there is not a dimes difference in lubes from much kicked bore butter to the finest clear ‘bar ol’
As I said I like the snob factor and if your a hard core blood shooter who weighs his balls and measure charges to odd number of grains one lube can put preform another. Should you be in the tall timber or woods walk or shooting iron gongs, loading from a bag, lube is lube

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Patchlubes are the difference between shooting a five shot 45, and a five shot 49 two x
Whip me with my own ramrod but in general shooting there is not a dimes difference in lubes from much kicked bore butter to the finest clear ‘bar ol’
As I said I like the snob factor and if your a hard core blood shooter who weighs his balls and measure charges to odd number of grains one lube can put preform another. Should you be in the tall timber or woods walk or shooting iron gongs, loading from a bag, lube is lube

LOL,Yes, and doing secret chants and dances does not make one lube that much better than the next IMHO!!

 

[pwbsmokey]

Patchlubes are the difference between shooting a five shot 45, and a five shot 49 two x
Whip me with my own ramrod but in general shooting there is not a dimes difference in lubes from much kicked bore butter to the finest clear ‘bar ol’
As I said I like the snob factor and if your a hard core blood shooter who weighs his balls and measure charges to odd number of grains one lube can put preform another. Should you be in the tall timber or woods walk or shooting iron gongs, loading from a bag, lube is lube

More important than lube, is having the stripes on your patches running north/south or east/west depending on your geographic location

 

[babstooge]

Stay away from the extra crunchy peanut butter. Not as consistent as the creamy kind.

I usually use extra chunky when I have a rough barrel I need to fire lap

 

[coupe]

My post was not meant to cause ire on the forum. I was looking at the supply of products available in these times, and the possible mix of tallow and the mink oil which many shooters stick by for their accuracy. If by chance it becomes scarce as some things happen to be I wanted to have something as close to the original stuff as possible till what we like comes back.
coupe

 

[UndeadPoet]

My post was not meant to cause ire on the forum. I was looking at the supply of products available in these times, and the possible mix of tallow and the mink oil which many shooters stick by for their accuracy. If by chance it becomes scarce as some things happen to be I wanted to have something as close to the original stuff as possible till what we like comes back.
coupe

No ire. Legit question. The problem is, there are as many patch lubes and opinions on them as there are members on this forum (or maybe even stars in the sky…lol). This is one of those questions that draws a million responses, many of which are something along the lines of, “Look at the 100 previous times this exact same question was asked and answered.” Keep asking questions if you need answers ( and maybe search the forum first to see if the answer is already there).

 

[Grenadier1758]

It is absolutely amazing the variety of patch lubricants that work and work well in muzzle loading rifles. I know on the match days at my club, one can walk the line and each shooter is going to be using a different patch lubricant, patch material and patch thickness combination. If your combination of ball size, patch material and patch lubricant is producing the desired effect at the target, then I am not about to make a suggestion to try something different.

 

[Mad L]

Anyone tried bear oil? I don’t have any but a friend has some I can get whenever I get a chance to go up to the North Carolina mountains

Bear oil is Great stuff and not just for patch lube either.
I got some from a member on this forum but she runs out fast by Spring so keep your ear to the ground when it come available again - it lasts a long time too.

 

[Tradbow]

Thank you for that info MadL

 

[2 shots]

i get better results with chunky , seems to seal the grooves better. get higher speeds on crony.

 

[coupe]

I took note of all the tallow lubes, so I rendered beef tallow in the water method and added 20% bees wax to stiffen it up, maybe a scoosch less cause it is stiff but workable. Went to the range today and found how easy it loaded, much much better than just pure mink oil that I was useing. For a matter of fact I tried loading rounds no swabbing between with no loss of accuracy, something I never achieved previously, I was totally surprised at.
Oh by the by NO BEEF SMELL so nobody got hungry for a stake! I believe it loads better than TOW mink or my mix of mink oil and lamb tallow!
coupe