rendering your own lube

[buckknife]

After seeing how lard shoots,this was a hygronated lard,i decided to try my hand at rendering my own lube.Dont figuare they had hygronated stuff in the old days.Aint no bear fat readly available here so i looked for either sheep or beef fat.Found the beef fat for 19 cents a pound.Bought 5 #.Followed some rendering instruction off the net an now have about 2# of beef tallow ready for use.Think next year i will keep all the fat off everybodys deer an render it down.Tallow is good cheap lube and if it worked for the old timers it will work for me. :winking:
Id go out an shoot some today but its hangen right around zero.Bound to warm up sooner or later i hope

 

[musketman]

Watch the salt contents of the fats, it could cause more harm than good...

 

Most of the salt content in tallow and lard is added at the packing plant.

No, it is never going to be warm again.

Who said that North Kentucky was "the sunny South"????

15 degrees and a 20MPH wind!!! shish!!!!

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[B.Habermehl]

I would think that if you would render the fat-lard in hot water then allow to cool and skim the fat fron the top of your pot. You would remove most of the salt from your finished product. Especially if you do it more than once. This is only a opinion as I never fooled arond with rendering. BJH

 

[buckknife]

Cant see how it would hurt the bore as a patch lube anymore than a water basesd moose milk couldin a days hunt.Now if we were talken about seasoning the bore,which i aint,not yet anyhow,i have talked to different people who have used nuthin but tallow in their bores for over 30 years with no problems.
I may try it with the cheap bobcat barrel i put on the cheap cva hawkens,figure it would take at least 100 ball run threw it with no cleanen,tallow as lube n then a warm water bath,dry patched an more tallow.If it shows rust well then it would be back to the clp.
I figuare the old timmers used animal fats of all kinds in their bores,readly available from the animals they traped or hunted,and i will be danged if you find the right patch it will shoot as good as any thing else out there. :hmm:

 

[brushbuster]

even though i dont have the time nor inclination to render ,i was wandering if they ever rendered the fat off a coon,back in the days when i was trappin those critturs,them carcasses wuz pretty greasy :shocking: :hmm: and they have their own cover scent :: :crackup:

 

[Old Charlie]

What about beaver fat? After all that is what the Mt. men were after and they have a lot of fat. I rember traping one back in the late sixtys and it had about a three inch layer of fat between the hide and meat.
Old Charlie