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Lubing patches
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This should prove interesting. 
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Oh boy...flintlock, I strongly suggest that you check out YouTube. There are numerous videos that will explain the loading process.
Old Hawkeye
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I don't think pouring oil on top of your powder or putting your powder on top of your patch would work out to well. YMMV! Now you can tell us you were just joshin'.
No need to buy oil if your just at the range, you can just spit down your barrel.
Chewing gum or chewing tobacco can help produce a lot of spit
The lube is in tiny amounts just on the patch
Assuming this isn’t just a little joke, you pour your powder in to a dry bore and the ball is wrapped in a greased or oiled patch. You can use spit if your shooting right away. You just dampen the patch work saliva and run it down the bore wrapped around your ball.
If your shooting a conical there is no patch but a hard lubricant in the groves of the conical. Some suggest in a hollow base to fill the hollow too.
Chewing gum or chewing tobacco can help produce a lot of spit
The lube is in tiny amounts just on the patch
Assuming this isn’t just a little joke, you pour your powder in to a dry bore and the ball is wrapped in a greased or oiled patch. You can use spit if your shooting right away. You just dampen the patch work saliva and run it down the bore wrapped around your ball.
If your shooting a conical there is no patch but a hard lubricant in the groves of the conical. Some suggest in a hollow base to fill the hollow too.
NO! That would only make a mess. Lots of methods others will discuss. Mine is to take a large piece of the washed patch material I intened to use (ticking), lay it out on a flat surface the rub with my lube. Currenly, my lube is beeswax and whale oil. A good alternative is beeswax and jojoba oil. Lesser, but still good choice can be a lot of animal source oils like whale; bear; beef/bison/sheep/tallow, etc. straight or mixed with beeswax. Lube the material, tear into useful sizes and store in plastic baggies. That is how the original mountain men did it.
did original mountain men have plastic baggies?NO! That would only make a mess. Lots of methods others will discuss. Mine is to take a large piece of the washed patch material I intened to use (ticking), lay it out on a flat surface the rub with my lube. Currenly, my lube is beeswax and whale oil. A good alternative is beeswax and jojoba oil. Lesser, but still good choice can be a lot of animal source oils like whale; bear; beef/bison/sheep/tallow, etc. straight or mixed with beeswax. Lube the material, tear into useful sizes and store in plastic baggies. That is how the original mountain men did it.
longcruise
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This asked by a member who has been with us since 2007! Flintlock, you aren't by chance kicking back and having a hearty chuckle? 
yep
I only asked because of after using olive oil for years it has been mentioned several times that olive oil with run into my powder and ruin powder charge. I often leave my rifles loaded for a month at a time before firing but have realized now that my lubing and squeezing out the excess must be all wrong and there must be a right way to do this. Or many that reply to posts really have no idea what they are talking about.
Olive oil when old or rancid, gets sticky and nasty. OO, bore butter, anything with beeswax, I avoid. Nasty stuff to clean up. Jojoba oil gets super sticky as well.
I've kept this bottle in the house for possibly three years now and still lubing patches and wiping down guns and leather gear with it, very cheap, peried correct, safe as well as very cheap.
Wasn’t cheap in the 17 and 18 hundreds. Imported yes but a rich man’s cooking and salad dressing oil. Average Joe probably didn’t buy it to lube rifle patches.
Bear grease was the poor man's patch lube
Yep but they didn't have Balistol, Moose Milk or any of the modern synthetic oils on the market now either so thats kind of a mute point.
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hanshi
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Hey, hold my beer and watch this..This should prove interesting.
I'm still cooking with olive oil older than what Flintlock mentioned I think.
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This is what happens when we legalize marijuana. I’m hoping that Flintlock is being sarcastic. Being a member for many years and almost 700 posts later he asks this question?
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I figured somebody hacked his account!
