Why so many ingredients?

[Ian]

Yup, Deep Wood's Off is known here in the Lone Star State as "Armadillo Aftershave", so I sure can relate! We grow skeeters the size of hubcaps here, but I heard in Alaska they're the size of a B-52!

I'm not sure what part of the state you live, but in the Hill Country a lot of us use kerosene to keep the skeeters away. Put it in a spray bottle and sorta mist ourselves all over. It won't get you any dates, but it works better than "On" and "Flutter" at keeping the bugs off.

BTW plain Vaseline is best for the lube I recommended. Everyone gets their own ideas about these things, though.

 

[fiver]

well I did call that lube simple lube.
but I guess it's complicated.

now the recent batch of homo lube I'm working with is complicated.
I think it has about 11 waxes and 4-5 stearates plus a handful of mineral oil based oils with some poe buffers just to call it good.
it's still too hard but I got at least a dozen sticks from batch number-1 I need to use up before i'll even bother with it.
I doubt the 45 lbs of 9mm boolits sitting there will even make a dent in those.
and it should be a simple matter of adding a little more mineral oil to the mix.

 

[KHornet]

I am not prone to trial and error on much of anything. When it comes to lubes, I am more than happy to have someone else perfect them, test them, report on them etc. There are an awful lot of very good lubes on the market today, both commercial (often high priced), and brew your own stuff. I have a fondness for LAR's stuff, but for cold weather (real cold) I really like the green stuff that Brad brewed up some time ago. Am now working on Ben's Red, and am really impressed with it particularly when overcoated with BLL. Am so impressed with BLL that regardless of what I lube with, I overcoat everything with a lite coat of BLL (cause it just plain works for me). Have a lifetime supply of Johnsons (probably two lifetimes in actuality). Two/3 coats on multi groove bullets by itself is proving adequate as well. Ben's Red so far is proving great in 223, 6.5x55, and 375H&H, and expect it will do as well when I try it in other cals.

 

[Lost Dog]

No, they are more like the size of Hummingbirds in Alaska, just bite like a bomb load from a B52.

Now dat's funny!

 

[Lost Dog]

Well guys, I'm serious about keeping things simple. I use a plain open top electric lead furnace but with the same old Ideal dipper I started with. Use those out of date Lyman presses and 310 tong tools. Never wanted a Dillon or other fancy progressive press. So to be quite honest, I do like things simple, and if a blend of beeswax and Vaseline gives me results, then I'm a happy camper.
I'll be making a "mini batch" in the electric wax warmer today maybe and test it on some 358429's in a mag case. Sounds simple enough huh?

 

[Ben]

I am not prone to trial and error on much of anything. When it comes to lubes, I am more than happy to have someone else perfect them, test them, report on them etc. There are an awful lot of very good lubes on the market today, both commercial (often high priced), and brew your own stuff. I have a fondness for LAR's stuff, but for cold weather (real cold) I really like the green stuff that Brad brewed up some time ago. Am now working on Ben's Red, and am really impressed with it particularly when overcoated with BLL. Am so impressed with BLL that regardless of what I lube with, I overcoat everything with a lite coat of BLL (cause it just plain works for me). Have a lifetime supply of Johnsons (probably two lifetimes in actuality). Two/3 coats on multi groove bullets by itself is proving adequate as well. Ben's Red so far is proving great in 223, 6.5x55, and 375H&H, and expect it will do as well when I try it in other cals.

I'm glad that if I've got a serious problem and have to go to the Dr. that he isn't limited to only the simple. We've made great advances as a society by being willing to leave the simple and move on to more complicated things.

Ben's Red has several components in it, doesn't take long to make and WORKS ! !

 

[Lost Dog]

I'm not sure what part of the state you live, but in the Hill Country a lot of us use kerosene to keep the skeeters away. Put it in a spray bottle and sorta mist ourselves all over. It won't get you any dates, but it works better than "On" and "Flutter" at keeping the bugs off.

BTW plain Vaseline is best for the lube I recommended. Everyone gets their own ideas about these things, though.

I'm off in the woods east of ya a bit. Here, I battle scorpions all summer long. Wasps are everywhere. And fireants? I don't even wanna go there. .... My favorite repellent is the out of print G.I. "Bug Juice" . That stuff is "da bomb" for me. Stinky, nasty, and brutally offensive. Kinda like how my third wife turned out! Or was that the second wife?