The fact that there are so many recipes suggests that you can pretty much use anything.

You have to use weight not volume

The best thing on Black Powder Lube is the different choices to be made, I have used bees wax, gulf wax and lard mix. Bear Fat, Lambs Tallow, Buffalo Tallow, Olive Oil (I like the Bear Fat also) just so much to chose from that works well, I have heard, read and seen Murphy`s Oil Soap used in lubes. So many different recipes none are wrong (except bacon grease someone slipped, forgot about the salt) Even then in a pinch bacon grease will work, clean excessively after, But knowing if I had to may not be greatest choice, if none other available, it will work.

I did 35/35/35 of pure beeswax, crisco, and olive oil in a small crockpot set on low which is 200° and for a little added zing I put some mint food flavoring in for a very pleasant smell. Makes great chapstick too, wife loves it lol.

i've used wax toilet seal rings! works pretty good. I've also used large veterinary syringes to apply it. just heat it until it's fairly drippy, pour it into the syringe and seal it with the plunger. you might have to ream out the head where the needle normally goes but the plastic is soft.

I always use a pop cycle stick to add my lube. I just prefer to make wads or paper cartridges.

Try using a popsicle stick. They're available in craft stores. The knife may damage the the guns finish over time.

I tend to stay away from Crisco as a black powder lube, but when I make lube out of bees wax and lard or tallow I add a bit of dish soap or a piece of bar soap. This helps with clean up and keeps the fouling softer so if your Remington style revolver binds you can lower the loading lever, pull the cylinder pin (leave the cylinder in place) and push it back in and go on shooting. I enjoy your videos, thank you for making them.

Cheap candle wax and Vaseline is a very easy and effective method. It dissolves the black powder residue making it softer without reacting with it to make it more corrosive in any way

i've always used my fingers for plugging the cylinders with lube. Alittle messy,but wipes off easily

Lambs tallow is the best. For my bullet dipping on my conical balls or for my combustable paper cartridges I use a 50/50 bees wax and lambs tallow. The consistency of that mix is like a softer wax and adheres to the bullet well. Stay away from non rendered beef or pork fat as they are high in salt content. If you plan on keeping your revolver loaded for a long period of time, just place a thin carboard wad over the powder before adding your felt wonder wad. It will keep the powder dry and won't allow any extraneous grease from fouling the powder charge.

Great video. Thank you

Very good video, very informative.

Thanks a bunch!

Olive oil makes fouling nice and soft. It will allways cause fliers.

I had my grandkids save me a few popsicle sticks to apply lube. I keep a few in the BP range bag.

These also work amaxing for dry cracked hands in the winter. Except i use pure almond oil instead of olive oil.

Good video! I prefer tallow as it has a much higher melting point than pork fat (Crisco), olive oil, or any other short-chain saturated fat. Just collect your hamburger fat or see if you can get some beef trimmings from your butcher. I tried the over-ball lube method, and found that even with beef tallow/beeswax, I had a lot of fat run down the cylinder and toward the handle. I either use homemade "wonder wads" or run a lubed up swab down the bore every cylinder.

Go to Amazon for lamb's tallow. My mix is 50% beeswax/paraffin and 50% lamb's tallow. Good luck!

my mix is a 40:60 tallow rendered from beef kidney fat and beeswax. Kidney fat tallow is very hard and makes a stiff mix. iIn the past I have tried several types of oil but find it sweats out of wads and makes a wet mess. But thanks for the ideas i may try them.

Hey dude. I mix it to where you can kinda break it up with your hand. Then i break off a little ball the right size and just put it in with my finger. Very easy.

Vaseline works really well too with beeswax.... Basically all BP lubes are beeswax... the oil/talllow/whatever is just to soften the wax. It's the beeswax that does the bizzo...

What about beeswax plus pure lanolin?

Shooting blanks is a waste of time..accuracy ??

I use just crisco very easy clean up

Out of curiosity, what's causing the 'PEW' sound? Is that just the capture range of the equipment being used?

Popsicle stick works good

1) That's knife abuse! I hope that isn't a real 110 Buck. Why do you think they invented Popsicle sticks? Or fingers? 2) The second and third lubes are on the soft side because you used a volumetric measure for the bees wax. Since it is in kernels, there are air spaces in the cup so you don't get the full 1/4 cup of wax. It probably makes no difference in effectiveness but you may be able to tell the difference in feel. Nice demonstration.

I use hamburger fat. I have 4 kids, often family over. A lot of hamburger helper, cheeseburgers ect so I end up with a lot of beef fat in a years time. I use the Gato Feo mix, 1, 1 and 1/2 ratio. I had 4 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of canning wax and my bee keeper uncle gave me 2 pounds of bees wax. Fired up the crock pot used to make soap and made 10 pounds of lube. I should be good for the rest of my life. Makes great lube for grease grooves, great lube for greased felt wads (mostly what I do as did the shooters of the 1880's) and great as a grease cookie.

What you're making is pan lube. It's supposed to be melted in a pan with boolits inside then the boolits are plucked out. These are firm lubes for that purpose. The way you're using it, you should just use pure Crisco. There's no need to firm it up with the wax. It only makes it harder to put into the chambers.

I just use my finger-tip.

A disposable plastic knife works well -- no scratches

Can beef tallow, pork lard, bear fat, palm oil, and soy wax be used?

Is that an 'old timer' knife..i miss mine

Question is does it get runny in hot weather?

Why nobody uses pig grease ?

Just what exactly do you think crisco is made out of? Maybe animal fat of some sort? LoL

Popsicle stick

Never use a knife on your gun !!! Try a tongue depressor /popsicle stik !!

Most I've seen use their finger

Popsicle stick