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Grease Hole Filling?
- Thread starter jon math
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Yes but a patch box only holds not so many patches. Many more dry patches can be stored in one's bag, and a quick swipe across the grease hole is all that's needed. Seems like the grease hole could lube scores of patches before needing to be refilled. It is also a much less expensive thing to have added to a rifle even today.
The more I read on them and consider them, the more I'm thinking on having my next rifle with a grease hole.
The more I read on them and consider them, the more I'm thinking on having my next rifle with a grease hole.
I think a tallow hole is a Southern thing, but I could be wrong. That's the only place I've seen them, at any rate. Lard has a lower melting point than tallow, but not significantly lower. Lard has a lot more housekeeping cooking uses than beef tallow, although there weren't as many beeves. I don't know about bear grease.
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Huh this has been a interesting thread.
I never considered having the lube itself in the patchbox.
Makes me wonder about all the uses people had for the patchbox/cap box.
I've seen references online to people putting tools and spare parts in there, patches and now the lube itself.
I never considered having the lube itself in the patchbox.
Makes me wonder about all the uses people had for the patchbox/cap box.
I've seen references online to people putting tools and spare parts in there, patches and now the lube itself.
Smokey Plainsman said:
That is because in the day it wasn't considered a "Patch Box" More so just a... Box!
Flints, leathers, spare this and that were kept in the box area along with ones tallow if he so had chosen to do so.
Hopefully Spence will chime in, but me personally I have never came across hard documentation of the little area being reserved or mentioned as strictly being a patch box.
