September 21, 2017, 07:46 AM | #1 |
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patch lube
what are you guys using for patch lube with patch and ball loads ?
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Gobs of options..
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Spit.
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Sometimes I use bear grease (if I can find the tin).
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Whatever the yella stuff is on the ox yokes.
Tried making my own from pillow ticking and mink's fat. They were done "blown through" as it were when I picked up the fired patch. Went back to ox yoke. |
September 21, 2017, 10:28 AM | #6 |
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years ago CVA made a good patch grease in a squeeze tube. Haven't made it for some time
I still got about 1/2 tube left wonder wad 1000 works it's a paste form Thompson bore lube will work, but I feel it is a bit soft. or make your own basic formula melted 1/2 beeswax 1/2 lard ( which is tallow depends on the animal it comes from) if too thick add more lard too thin more beeswax, Lot of people add other exotic things (mink oil, pine.oil. paraffin etc) that really are not needed |
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Just too many options and all claim to be the best
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my own, Frontiers anti rust & patch lube.
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Beeswax and olive oil but I have substituted Crisco for the olive oil. My patches will scorch a little but never had one come close to burning through.
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September 21, 2017, 01:05 PM | #10 |
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CRISCO....cuz other lubes taste just awful...
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Unicorn tears. You have to kick them a lot just to get enough for a few loads though. Bees wax and olive oil works good too.
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Not as good as mink's far. Nice, minky flavor.
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GoJo hand cleaner is excellent patch lube.
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If I'm in a load-and-shoot situation such as a match, I moisten them with moose milk, TC#13 or some other water based bore cleaner. Generally keeps me from having to swab the bore the entire match. If it's going to possibly stay loaded for a while usually bore butter or ox-yoke pre-lubed patches whatever they use.
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Not at all into homemade pach lube/s here.
Just saying. Warm months Shenandoah Valley Patch Lube. (unscented liquid) Cold months TOTWs Trapper's MINK OIL Patching Lube. (almost scent free.) For many years I used Ox Yoke Wonder Lube. A mediocre patch lube~~ but like all other stinky wintergreen greasy lubes it too has its limitations. Actually~~Climate determine's your patch lube. The ideal patch lube doesn't thin to a oil in the heat or turn to a hard wax like substance in the cold. Nor should it stink of a repulsive cover scent (wintergreen.) If only those patch lube manufactures were on the ball. They'd taint their patch lube with anise oil or molasses. Both attractants in the animal world not a repulser of which wintergreen is. |
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Short of plain`ol spit patch, the UNIVERSAL/hot/cold/wet/dry patch lube is;
- 7:1 water/water-soluble Cutting Oil on ticking strips - Squeegeed all-but dry between paper towels/rolling pin - Final dry in warm oven. Fold it into Altoids tins and it lasts forever until use. |
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I use the TLAR method of mixing it up. (that looks about right) The water is just a vehicle to deposit a light and uniform coating of lube without saturating it with lube. In my experience the sky does not fall if the ratio is a little off.
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how well would equal parts canola oil and water work sprayed on a patch and squeeze out the excess between your fingers for at the range ?
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Canola oil won't mix with water. Ballistol and cutting oil both form an emulsion in water. Ballistol mixed with water looks like milk, so does cutting oil, hence the nickname "moose milk".
The idea is to dilute the oil with water so when the water dries, you are left with a thin but uniform amount of lube on the patch. You could probably cut the canola oil with some sort of solvent like acetone and do the same thing, the acetone dissolves the oil and evaporates leaving a thin and uniform coating of oil.
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Back when I shot BP I used CVA cleaning solvent as a patch lube, it was very thin, pink liquid. I got best accuracy with it. I cut strips from Walmart pillow ticking(016"thick) not the thin stuff. .490 cast ball, cut at the muzzle. This was the most accurate combination.
When hunting the reload I carried was a precut patch lubed with Crisco, not as accurate but a lot easier to load. |
October 2, 2017, 05:00 PM | #22 |
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I bought a bottle of Mr Flintlock's patch lobe and it is working very well. I shot 10 shots without having to wipe the bore and they were all accurate.
I also finally got a bottle of Ballistol oil and made moose milk, the results were the about the same as with Mr Flintlock's. |
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