Shot gun wad ?

[No.4shot]

What do you guys soak your cushion wads in?

 

[rabjr]

Bear grease.

 

[RC]

Bear grease.

:thumbsup: yup! swampys bear grease! :thumbsup:

 

[mazo kid]

Whatever is handy at the time....usually melt lube in the micro wave and soak the wads, then squeeze excess lube out. I've used SPG (expensive), moose milk, Bore Butter, tallow and oil, etc. I need to render some more bear and deer fat and make up Stumpy's recipe. Emery

 

[bingo1952]

50% beeswax, 25% hog lard, 25% olive oil. The same thing I use for patch lube. KISS

 

[Leatherbark]

Hot Crisco. Squeeze out. Let cool.......Shoot all day no swab..................Bob

 

[Stumpkiller]

I have an old mix of equal volumes Crisco/Beeswax and Mutton Tallow - melyed on a cookie sheet in a thin layer & then I roll the wads in it.

I've had equal success using a soldering acid brush and painting Lehigh Valley Lube around the edges.

And, of course, good 'ol Moose Juice as above.

Shotgun wads just don't seem to be finiky or critical of lube as rifles can be.

 

[Leonredbeard]

For hunting I finger spread some wonder lube around the edges. For shooting clays I just dribble a little alcohol/Murphy's oil soap from a squeeze bottle around the edges. I can shoot a whole clays contest that way without cleaning.
volatpluvia

 

[tom deinek]

Lestoil soap.

 

[Many Klatch]

A bunch of us used to shoot smoothbores at thrown birds. We'd take a bucket and fill it full of some kind of blackpowder solvent. I don't know what they were using, but it was white, thin and milky. It could have been Ballistol and water. We'd throw a couple of hand fulls of cushion wads into the bucket and let them soak for a minute or two. After that we'd load up and shoot. When they got real squishy we'd squeeze the extra goop out of the wads and then load them. They certainly kept the guns clean all day.

Many Klatch