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horseman1977

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Just wondering what you guys are using to hold your 'moose milk' or other patch lube in that is traditional looking. I don't want to carry around a plastic squirt bottle. I was thinking of a cheap wineskin water bag (just have to mark it so I don't end up drinking from it) Any other ideas?
 
I use a McCormick vanilla extract bottle with the threads ground off (Mizzy wheel on a Dremel) and a cork stopper.

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Look for small medicine bottles in antique stores. You want one that doesn't show casting seems. It should be greenish in color( Brown came later), and have a few bubbles in the glass, from being blown into a mold. Put a cork stopper in it.

To secure it, you can sew(stitch) leather around it, wet, which will shrink against the bottle when the leather dries. Put the smooth side of the hide against the glass, and the rough side out. That is the easiest way to distinguish by feel the difference between a bottom of spirits, and your cleaning fluid! This protects the glass bottle from nicks and small cracks from banging into other items. The leather will also cover any Label that was molded into the glass body.

I have a 2 oz. medicine bottle of this type, which cost me about $.50 at a flea market. I have not wrapped mine in leather, yet,because the blown glass is so thick it seems almost indestructible. Its rattled around now in my hunting pouch for more than 25 years, so I can't get in a hurry to do that stitching work.
 
You could get a 3" tall x about 1" dia hand made tin oil can w/ cork stopper from Carl Giordano for $11.50. (lots of period tinwares at cg-tinsmith.com). I use one to carry ballistol. :thumbsup:
 
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Thanks. I didn't think of using a small glass or tin bottle. I will have to start looking around for some. I have lots of different leather to cover them with.
 
Is your pillow ticking coming out of the leather bag already lubed? Does the leather bag leak at all or is it not that wet?
 
............not that I would know first hand or anything. :thumbsup: ... :redface: ... :shocked2: ... :barf:

But IIRC some of the higher end whiskeys sell their singles in glass bottles. That'd be perfect.
 
horseman1977 said:
Is your pillow ticking coming out of the leather bag already lubed? Does the leather bag leak at all or is it not that wet?

It is dipped twice in a liquid lube (Moose Juice) and dried flat on waxed paper overnight in between. The bag is deerskin that was turned inside out and molten beeswax brushed inside. It is near 'nuff lube proof. I roll up six feet of lubed cotton tick torn into 1-3/8" strips (before the soakings) as the pre-lubed patching and carry it in that bag. Keeps "fresh" and useable for a long time (over a year). No one has evey complained at a "load from the bag" event.

Very handy to cut at the muzzle this way as I palm the bag and only have 3" or so of patch material out of the bag.

No idea if it is historically correct. I "invented" it as far as I know.
 
The paste shoe polish cans ( :hmm: the ones with the little lever on the side to help opening) make ideal tins to hold patch lubes.
 

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