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As Stated earlier, there is a time and place for BB and it is entirely your call. There are better lubricants and surface coatings, by a county mile. Again, I use it kind of like PAM, to coat fire-surface areas to prevent carbon and fouling from sticking. It does work and makes cleaning easier. It is also used by some, to "season" a barrel and that will conjure up more debate. .... Quote:
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April 23, 2013, 11:15 AM | #27 |
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I like the smell, plus it doesn't taste so nasty if you get some on your peanut butter and jelly sammiches... not like Hoppes #9 anyway.
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April 23, 2013, 12:20 PM | #28 |
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I have some bore butter, haven't done much with it because the price is so high.
This past winter I was looking for a lube and powder good down to -30dF. Colder than that, I don't hunt. I mixed up a recipe I found online, by weight 45% beeswax, 45% crisco and 10% olive oil. I shorthand it 45-45-10. So I put some 45-45-10 and some bore butter on a scrap of cardboard outdoors under my boat. After about 3 days at -20dF and colder the BB was a "little bit" softer than the 45-45-10, but not a lot. The crayon type bullet lubes on the same cardboard scrap were brittle, about useless. I found the 45-45-10 is good as a bullet lube down to -42dF (it was a sunny day, what the heck), and a whale of a lot cheaper than the bore butter. So I stopped fooling with bore butter. One thing I did try this spring fooling with BP in 45Colt was I got my stainless gun spotless and then pre-lubed it inside and out with 45-45-10. Shot I think 75 rounds or so. I figger if I am going to have to work that hard to clean the gun I might as well shoot a lot. turns out it was the easiest clean up ever for me using hot soapy water and patches. Getting into the action (Redhawk) with a Qtip wasn't as bad as it could have been. So I got a little Bore Better, you can have it free if you come get it. |
April 23, 2013, 09:28 PM | #29 |
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Hope everyone knows....
...I have my tongue planted firmly in my cheek as I energetically criticise Bore Butter.
I don't like it, don't use it but I would never advise anyone else to stop using it if they see some value in it.
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April 24, 2013, 09:31 AM | #30 |
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Maybe... I'm a weirdo but I don't mind the smell of BB. I will use it until the tube is empty and then try the Cisco recipe. I appreciate all the remarks pro and con. Bought some Ballistol yesterday to add to the cleaning supplies. I can't believe I never heard much about Ballistol until now.
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45-45-10 is good from +40dF down to -40dF, ass/u/me-ing below about 0dF you are carrying a sidearm just in case. (I tend to hunt furbearers in cold weather with a bolt action .223, the sidearm is for just in case.) All of my testing this winter was in a .45Colt sidearm, with good fitting cast slugs I was starting to see a little bit of leading around -25dF, but still short range dependable defense. Below -40 there was enough leading I wouldn't want to try for a second well placed followup shot out past 25 yards or so; but I wasn't hurting the gun and I know three different powders that work good that cold and the lube is adequate. Those are Universal, TiteGroup and HS-6 if you are keeping track. 777 worked fine down to -30dF, I didn't have any more loaded up the one sunny day I went to the range when it was colder. I plan to kep testing over the summer in .45Colt and repeat this coming winter in .45-70, I am not sure how cold I can go with 45-45-10 in 45-70 but I am going to find out. Generally closing day of moose season we have up to maybe 18" of snow on the ground, but temps are not likely to be negative. I tried the 45-45-10 first because I could make it in the kitchen instead of having to buy a pot and a bowl and a spoon and so on for the reloading shop. There are a bajillion lube recipes out there, I seriously tried this one first to see how cold it would work good. Once I found the lower limit of 45-45-10 I was going to go back to the well for a new recipe, but I didn't have too. My personal limit for being outdoors hunting furbearers in January is -30dF. Colder than that I stay home and let the critters grow more hair. So I don't need a lube that works below that cutoff. Best of luck to you. /highjack |
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April 24, 2013, 08:04 PM | #32 |
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I have a can of Cisco that has been sitting in my kitchen cabinet for awhile. We just don't use the stuff much... thanks to you guys for now I have found a new use for it.
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