Back when I first got into BP guns (I picked up a second hand CVA Kentucky pistol and a TC 250 gn Maxi mold back in the '80sand the rest is carbon-smeared history) the only books I had, showed data using Crisco as a patch/conical lube.

It seemed to work just fine on those maxi's, (couldn't seem to miss a can out to 50 ydswith that old .45hoss pistol)but smearing it into the grooves with my fingers got a might messy, so I tried cutting it with just enough gulf-wax to stiffen it up, pouring the molten lube around the slugs and using an old 45-70 case as a cookie-cutter once it cooled off.

To this day I still use crisco/wax as a bullet lube for shooting maxi's out of my sidelocks, one pound of crisco to one brick of wax....

Anyone else still using good-old-crisco? Seems like if lard and tallow was good enough for the old timers, ought to be good enough for today's shooters...

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