Speaking of moosemilk cayugad. I made some last summer using your recipie. How long will it keep?

HA

If you liked the yellow patches and want to replace them ; Just get a small metal pot melt a batch of bore butter in it at low heat do not let it get any hotter than what it takes to thin down the bore butter, you do not want to burn it. just dump some patches in and let them soak up good the take then out with tongs or needle nose pliers and lay them on a paper towel to cool. Lee

Homemade patches
 

Bought ticking from a fabric store and mixed up some crisco and vaseline in a small container. Cut the fabric to the right size and applied some stuff and put it in a sealed sandwich bag.
A little old, a little new and practical.

When i first started shooting my .54 renegade, i was at the range using bore butter on patches and one of the old timers suggested the olive oil method,all i used after that. until i quit shooting round balls out of it and went to conicals,since they were more accurate and did such a fine job on dispatching the deer i shot with them.

one way to pre-lube patches is to melt crisco/ bear fat/ or hog lard in a pan untill it just heats enough to began melting and dip your pre- cut patch strips ( pillow ticking ) in it . the fabric will soak up the grease . Roll the strips and squeeze out the excess grease while it is warm. Don't get the grease too hot or it will fry the cloth material.

Thank you guys for the suggestions. I, however, have a question concerning the use of animal fat/oil compared to plant fat/oil. Since animal fat becomes "rancid" (degrades) in a shorter period of time than plant fat, does anyone have an idea of "shelf life" when using animal fat? I ask because, the patches I had (borebutter, thus crisco/plant fat) still worked 7 yrs after I purchased them; my wife found the reciept last night. She saves EVERY reciept.
I really like the olive oil idea...do I use Balsamic or Extra Virgin (bad joke).

That's why I like the bees wax, castor oil and Murphy's Oil Soap recipe...

The guy over at Traditional Muzzleloading that developed that recipe decided to use the castor oil because he races mini airplanes and they put castor oil in the gas to lubricate the engine...After a race he was cleaning the plane and realized that the soot from the exhaust on the side of the plane was greasy...He figured if castor oil could with stand the high heat of a 2-stroke motor it should also help protect the patch in his flintlock...

What I did was make up 10-12 patches, trying 5 different lubes...Then I went to the range and tried each with a hunting powder charge...I saw different group sizes and point of impact change with different lubes...

NC,
Would you post the 'recipe' you've mentioned? I would like to try it; although Crisco has been good to me.
littlekid

Just shake the jug before you use or pour out more of it. It will turn white again. I had a quart of it on the one gun cabinet for over a year, maybe longer. I just finished it and it is as good as the day I made it.

littlekid...Here you go..

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fu...hp?tid/203261/