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Dphariss
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Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting
      23/11/07 07:25 AM

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Does anybody use bear grease (which is really a light oil)?

I rendered several quarts of it last year, but haven't tried it yet. Legend says it was the standard by which all others were judged.

Curl




I use bear oil, sperm whale oil and neatfoot oil and they will all work.
I got a bottle of sperm whale oil from a friend who got some from one of his friends who had a bunch he had come across someplace years past.
My 16 bore with .008" deep grooves loads very nicely with this stuff using a .662 ball and a .012" linen patch. It is a little different color than my almost gone other Sperm oil. But the guy swears that its Sperm whale oil. I have no way to test and don't really care if it works well.
Bear oil is good and more solids can be removed by putting a couple of lead balls in the container. I used one in about a cup of oil in a glass jar and quite a bit of "bear lard" formed on it.
I don't use water based lubes at all. Water is a poor lubricant.
Some rifles shoot better with a greased patch, lube rubbed just on the barrel side. I use SPG bullet lube and my 54 likes it but I only use it for serious target work and use oil for hunting. Too much oil (or any liquid) in the patch will contaminate the powder for a distance back from the ball if so I wipe them pretty dry for the first loading. In the field with a fouled barrel I leave them a little wetter but not dripping by any means. Over powder wad of some sort may eliminate the problem.

Dan

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* Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting DarylSModerator 21/02/06 03:32 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting BlainSmipy   21/02/06 05:53 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting Tatume   13/10/07 05:38 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting CptCurlAdministrator   19/10/07 10:07 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting Dphariss   23/11/07 07:25 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting DarylSModerator   20/10/07 12:41 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting BillfromOregon   20/10/07 01:21 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting CptCurlAdministrator   26/10/07 06:18 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting DarylSModerator   28/10/07 07:59 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting tinker   05/11/07 02:12 PM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting Marrakai   06/11/07 12:29 AM
. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting tinker   06/11/07 08:42 AM
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. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting CptCurlAdministrator   12/11/07 12:44 AM
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. * * Re: Lubricants for Patched round ball shooting DarylSModerator   06/11/07 12:46 AM
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