I tried this a couple years ago n just made some more I use it for my round ball patches n Lee r.e.a.l bullets works really good not using any other lube. Thanks for the video..

I tried this and it works very well. I like how you can vary the thickness by changing the amount of beeswax. I found a cedar essential oil and used it instead of wintergreen so it now has a woodsy smell to it. Great instructional video!

Thanks for taking us along, really enjoyed your video. Can’t wait to try making my own.

Coconut oil has a 3 year self life vs 1 year for olive oil, and has corrosion resistant properties.

very instructional and answered my questions about bore butter...and then some. I needed to know what you pointed out for my 58, 36, 45 and 54 caliber patch-n-balls. Cheers!

Try 7:1 (olive oil to bees wax) ratio for starters. One important tip.. keep mixing until everything solidifies! You get the micro crystal consistency like authentic bore butter.

Just found you love your videos . Thanks for what you do learning alot

Thank you for sharing this! TC Bore Butter is getting hard to find and I was worried about finding a good alternative. Thanks to your video I can now make my own.

That sure is a peaceful and beautiful place. Thanks for the good video I’m going to give it a try.

I know that was a great day spent in the woods. Great video.

I do about the same thing for my minié ball lube but I use lard and beeswax (and fir essential oil)! Works great. For patches, I've gotten lazy and just use mink oil paste.

I love the back ground sounds.

When I use the tube of bore butter in winter I mix extra olive oil to it to thin it out so I can use it. In tube during cols weather it won't come out of tube-to thick

I make the same for dubbing wax used in fly tying and also with boiled linseed oil for rubbing on wooden rifle stocks

You could probably duplicate the yellow color of borebutter by adding dyes used for candlemaking. They are oil soluable, come in both liquid and solid form, and are relatively inexpensive. You could even amuse yourself by making your own custom colored bore butter. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Definitely going to give this a try.

Kia Ora from NZ. Great explanation of how to do :) Love your appreciation of the nature around you. All the very best Nga mihi Ma te wa (Kind regards and have a great day) 😊

I'm glad I found your channel. I've made a few tubs of this bore butter and the stuff is just amazing.. of course it's easier to appreciate things when you DIY. Not only is it good for black powder guns, but it's good on your skin. Great for dry skin but also good for wounds or burns. I've been rubbing this stuff on everything lol. I'm now wondering if it'll work for deodorant

Trapping and muskets do go hand in hand! Great job, I think I'll try this project soon. Thanks and subscribed

Another great video, I bought some beeswax a couple of weeks ago so I'll use some for my own bore butter, thanks again. As for trapping and BP shooting video, yes please.

I put our spearmint leaves in a jar of everclear alcohol to make tincture. A dribble into my mix works to give it a natural low land mint smell.

Theres something about looking up into the greenwood to the sounds of cicadas that just whispers..." summer" ...in your ears. Takes me back to being a boy in 1968. I could put a hammock right there and take a nap!😂

For lubed felt wads used by my percussion revolver, I use tallow, beeswax, and a little bit of paraffin wax as a stiffener so they're not an oily mess in the summertime.

I like bore butter, the smell doesn't matter to me. But I think I'll try this in the next couple days and use food coloring for some unique looking lube and not worry about the smell.

For the most part, I make a mixture of pure beeswax & Criso for my minie balls. If I'm shooting PRB, I lube the patches with olive oil.

Hey @Majormusket... Well done with the song, nice you recorded for you own vid! Also, what was the ratio Beeswax to Oliv Oil or do you know??? hard to tell in the vid.

I used to use mutton fat or beef fat (not from the kidneys) and mix it with dish washing detergent, it worked a tread and it was easy to clean my Kentucky rifle with hot water at the end of the day.

Great vid sir! Gonna make it tomorrow. Thanks you.

Fun to go fronteer style. I tried a plastic funnel and turned a hand towel in to a lifetime supply of fire starter! Lol after I cooled my hand. Ouch!

Awesome, gonna make some as well. What dollar store did you find that pot in? I like it as well. Thanks for the video.

Looks great! Perhaps I could add a bit of advice though. Even if extra virgin olive oil is used, it’s still not free of acid, so it might be more economical to use a cheap olive oil and neutralize its acidity. That was actually done by clock and watchmakers in the centuries past to create needed lubricants on their own. I’ve read a book from 19th century called “Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology” giving instructions how to refine oils from hooves, bones and whale blubber to olive oil. The method to neutralize acids from olive oil as described there is to mix the oil with caustic soda lye (one hundredth part of the weight) and shake it well. After several days (shaking it again periodically), a large quantity of water is to be added and oil poured off from the top. For horological purposes it is also to be purified from other substances using alcohol, but I suppose that’s unnecessary here. The oil should be acid free after the above mentioned neutralization, which should be beneficial for firearms use.

Thanks! Going to try this very soon. Already have beeswax for bow string making. Going to leave out wintergreen scent for deer hunting. May put wife's perfume in it. She walks by the deer during hunting season and they don't care. 🤣

Please does it have a removable breech plug?

Good video.... You can test consistency as you go by dipping something cold into the mix (tip of your knife will do), and test the consistency of the cooled bit as you go, same technique as jam(jelly) makers use....... Saves a lot of fooling around... Most bullet lubes for 'primitive' use are based on beeswax, and what you soften it with doesn't seeem to matter that much. Olive oil is great of course, but so is petroleum jelly (vaseline)... I have used such lubes exclusively for many years for both BP and smokeless loads up to high intensity .44 Magnum. I make up lube sticks of Beeswax/vaseline lube for my lube-sizer and it works a treat.... a bit more wax for this to make it stiffer for this use... It also is 'sticky' enough to hold bullets in paper cartridges with no other adhesive.

👍 I made some lube up but guessed the ingredients - beeswax , Vaseline and olive oil . Not far from right . Still got some left . Used a washed out food can , heated it up in that and put one of them plastic sealer caps on top . It’s good to make your own lube . I wasn’t in the woods when I did it though , maybe I should have 🤔

Beeswax in the mail, should be here friday. Better be, going to need some come sunday.

Im going to get into black powder rifles. Your video is so awesome. I know how to make bore butter myself now. Thank you so so mutch. I love the idea of it. More economical. Im even going to get into making me own black powder. Again thank you so mutch for your insight. It will help me tremendously.

Great idea! I can borrow a bit of my wifes Bertolli and purchase the beeswax and have an extremely economical product.

Terrific video, sir! Two questions: What rifle is that? I like it. Where did you get the bee's wax? I get mine from honey comb, but that is a slow process to get a substantial amount. Thanks very much for the informative video. Michael.

I went with 50-50 bees wax and lard for my 50 cal Lyman trade cap and ball it works great

Great video. Been doing that a long time now. Nice shirt! Where'd that come from?

Just what I'm looking for

Will the acid in the olive oil hurt the gun metal, say if you did a 50/50 mix?

I tried many different ingredients in the past then one day I had a toilet bowl wax seal that was damaged while on a new build site , and decided to try it for my muzzle loader and problem solved cheap and easy.

I’ve made my own bore butter too! Quick question, will the olive oil go rancid over time?

Do you think you could use this on an inline muzzleloader, or is that a whole separate thing?

Hi,Major, can Sunflower oil be used in place of Olive oil, or is it not as good? Cheers, Derek(u.k)

OK, a half cup of what oil and how much bees wax?

Excellent video! I'd call this field-expedient bore butter, and it will work. Some notes: 1. Preparing salves, especially using natural oils, is best done with a double-boiler method. You can boil water in your bush pot and float a steel cup in the water. The oil, herbs, and wax go into the cup. This prevents acidifying (increasing free acidity) of the salve. 2. Fatty acid content of natural oils and free acidity are two completely different things. Some fatty acids are corrosion inhibitors for the steel or iron. Free acidity is corrosive. 3. Acidity is generally measured by pH with a range of 6 to zero. PH of 7 is neutral. PH of 8 to 14 is alkali (basic). It is regulated by 21 CFR 114.90 4. Two important parameters for oil are smoke point and pH. However pH of oil is difficult to measure and is often specified as % free acidity. The only oil that does not have free acidity is coconut oil with a pH between 7 and 8, slightly alkaline. The smoke point of refined coconut oil is 450 F. Compared to extra virgin olive oil: 0.8% free acid, sp 350 F. Sunflower and canola oil have about ten times less free acidity than olive oil.

Hi do you need tonput essential oil in I am just starting in black powder pistols

Would cocoa butter be good to use?

Happy belated birthday... thanks...

Anyone make list. Of ingredients

I live in the deep south the problem i have with bore butter in 85 degrees it turns to piss

Is it thick enough to stick to a maxi ball? Does it clean up like the real stuff? If you didn't care about the smell would it hurt to skip the scented oil? Can you coat the bore with it when you're done? Do you know if paraffin wax would work instead? Sorry for all the questions but you really got me interested in this. Thanks.

Happy birthday

I have used toilet bowel ring for bees wax

Add pepper mint to it and keep yellow jackets away

I guess a guy could leave it the perfume to have a more "stealthy" mix?

I trapped in the the 1975 vprices were. Great

That stuff will harden up the cooler it gets, you might have used to much wax. Lol I use the same stuff no wintergreen tho, hate the smell.

What was the ratio?

Salve isn’t universally bees wax and olive oil. Salve basically refers to any topical remedy that has that spreadable but stable consistency. A lot of salves were made from petroleum jelly, so while you could make a salve from bees wax and olive oil, your statement that all salves are olive oil and beeswax is absolutely false. Many salves are made of toxic things that are fine on the skin but not in the mouth and certainly not in your stomach.

I take it you are not planning on large game. They would smell you coming a 1/2 mile away.

Just a pinch between cheek and gum.....Just kidding...Ever heard of using Murphy's Oil Soap instead of Olive Oil?

Same ingredients, another method. Melt the beeswax in a short wide glass jar in a microwave oven. Add the oil and wintergreen. Stir. Done. When melting use about 20 seconds or so in the microwave, repeat over an over until it is liquid. (You could use any size glass jar to melt the wax and add the other 2 ingredients in and stir). Then poor the finished mixed mixture while it's still hot and liquid into metal screw top snuff cans

WHY ???? WHY ???

21:06 you are killing the squirrels? why???

Why make that crap?