BP Lube?

[bpsmoke]

Any BP lube recipes similar to DGL that can be used for pan lubing?

Fouling control - blowtube

Thanks

smoke

 

[bpsmoke]

Any guidelines for ingredients?

 

[Rick]

I'd like to help ya out Smoke but I have no experience with BP lubes. I would sure think someone here does, kinda surprised no one has responded yet.

 

[smokeywolf]

Never pan lubed for BP. Just used the commercial stuff in lube grooves or spit patches in smooth bores. I would think that whatever folks use for pre-lubing patches might work for a pan lube for bullets.

 

[Ian]

Buck Emmert's is hard to beat. I modify it by replacing half the canola oil with lanolin.

 

[bpsmoke]

Thanks for the replies.

I may substitute Tallow for the Crisco.

 

[Doug]

Buck Emmert's is hard to beat. I modify it by replacing half the canola oil with lanolin.

This is what I use. First lube was DGL as recommended by our rifle mfr., and I can't distinguish my Emmert's #2 from DGL. I don't sub canola w/ lanolin--I just add lanolin in with it. Note, I haven't blow-tubed yet, just wipe w/ moose milk (7 parts water, 1 part NAPA water soluble oil).

 

[KHornet]

When I was shooting minie balls in years past, I used a mix of beeswax and Crisco. Think it was about half and half but to long to remember for sure. I dipped the bases using surg forceps. They shot fine.

 

[Missionary]

Greetings Been using Beeswax (55%) with Olive oil (45%) for many years. Never have had any reason to stop. One cartridge and patches. Hot weather a bit more wax.
Works through a Lyman or pan lube. I even "finger Lube" small batches. Smells good and tastes good. Only lube I am permitted to make in the kitchen.
Mike in Peru

 

[JWFilips]

Back in the late 80's & early 90's I made a lube for Goex It was Called "BaaBeeBay" it was 45 % Mutton tallow...45% beeswax and 10% Bayberry wax, Their test plus mine coincided "Excellent BP lube" however the quantity they needed for retail required buying the "Mutton Tallow" from Australia.... With import duties etc it was too expensive! So it folded. In all my ML's to this day that is all I shoot & have been doing so since 1985!
Jim

 

[Doug]

I would have gone w/ mutton tallow (as the best of the tallows), but it seemed tallow has been "discovered" by home gourmets and now demands premium prices. Guess I coulda developed a relationship w/ a butcher, but my wife said no, she wasn't having any of that in her kitchen.

 

[Ian]

I rendered some bear fat one time, yowsers that stuff stank up the whole valley, just one saucepan full.

 

[9.3X62AL]

Como esta "D.G.L."? The small amount of BPC and muzzle-loading shooting I do has used SPG and Bore Butter with some success. I don't shoot BP in hot CA weather.

 

[Doug]

Well, I used DGL (once) when I purchased the rifle, b/c the mfr. recommended it. And I've read that bore butter is vegetable oil and beeswax, two ingredients in my homemade Emmert's #2. Now I don't know what's in DGL, just that it is absolutely indistinguishable from my homemade lube, even in the smell, color, and texture. Lord I love the smell too. Stuff is more fun that Play Dough.

 

[Craig Duncan]

This works well.

I use it on Minie bullets as I don't generally pan lube.
I have tried it on everything from a 38-55 to a 45-90 for cartridge rifles and it worked pretty well.

If you can use a lubrisizer, and your shooting black powder this recipe is the best I've found.
By weight.
Yellow bees wax 30%
Castor wax 25%
Castor oil 45%
It's an old Paul Matthews lube.
I cook it in a double boiler until the waxes are melted and then transfer it to my home made lube stick molds with a turkey baster.
It's a funny lube.
When it hardens it's hard and brittle. I need to cut the sticks with a hot knife or it cracks and breaks up.
But, when you put those sticks in a lubrisizer and lube your bullets under pressure, the lube turns soft and pliable and stays that way.
If anyone is interested, I'll send you a stick to try.

Craig