Mink Oil?

I like using TOW Mink Oil for my patch lube for hunting but it's kind of a pain in the butt to be ordering lots of that. I bought a can of mink oil that's meant for waterproofing your boots today and was wondering if it matters that it's not "supposed to be" used on patches. Will this stuff work, too?

luie b said:

I like using TOW Mink Oil for my patch lube for hunting but it's kind of a pain in the butt to be ordering lots of that. I bought a can of mink oil that's meant for waterproofing your boots today and was wondering if it matters that it's not "supposed to be" used on patches. Will this stuff work, too?

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I believe that stuff sold in the can is synthetic and not at all what one would get from TOW.

Read the label, if it is real try it.
What works, works. That is what counts.

I think there are petroleum products in it. Might not be a good idea.

I'm not sure how much you need, but the TOW can is surprisingly large and cheap. It's labeled 6 oz in their pictures, but arrives at your doorstep labeled 8 oz. That's a tin headed toward the the size of a CD or DVD in diameter and over an inch thick. I've been using the same tin for both leather treatment and patch lube for three years now and it's still not half empty. Used only for patch lube, you'd have to be shooting hundreds of shots every week to get through one in a couple of years I bet.

I've never tried the liquid, so can't help you there.

If it don't work as a patch lube you can use it as a caselube for resizing brass,works great.
If you don't reload & it won't work as a patch
lube you can use it on your boots.

My dog ate a tub of smiling mink brand , wonder if she is waterproof.
:idunno:
Dog can't open tin of Kiwi brand mink oil.

For patch lube I use neatsfoot oil.

Rifleman1776 said:

Read the label, if it is real try it.
What works, works. That is what counts.

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What he said... That's been my phylosophy since I was younger than Luie B. I'm still here.

luie b said:

I like using TOW Mink Oil for my patch lube for hunting but it's kind of a pain in the butt to be ordering lots of that. I bought a can of mink oil that's meant for waterproofing your boots today and was wondering if it matters that it's not "supposed to be" used on patches. Will this stuff work, too?

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Buy some PURE Neatsfoot oil and try that. Not compound, not something with petroleum distillate. Pure Neatsfoot Oil.
Chances are the boot oil has all kinds of "extras" in it you really don't need or want. Read the label or search the WWW for the MSDS of the stuff you have. If it has petroleum distillate I would not use it.

Dan

I just read contents on Kiwi can.
mink oil,sillycone & lanolin.
the lanolin makes it a good case sizing lube , I also use lanolin in the lube for my black powder cartridge rifles, use that same lube for conicals
in muzzleloaders.
The sillycone , I don't know how it would be as an ingredeant for a patch lube, don't know if it made the dog waterproof but guess it explains why she is silly :blah:

I tried using waterproofing mink oil as patch lube once,Once! After every shot my patch lay smoldering downrange. Not a good thing, especially on a woods walk.

Put the product in your freezer, if it freezes I would not use it.
I want my lube to be the same viscosity/wetness year round.

"Put the product in your freezer, if it freezes I would not use it."

OOoouu!, :applause: Good Idea! :hatsoff:

I've got some of the Kiwi mink oil that I bought for boot dubbing good stuff by the way. So I smeared some on a patch and put in the freezer its been in there for several days and is still very pliable. I will try some for a patch lube but if it ends up on the ground smoldering that would make it too dangerous to use in my opinion.

Richard

Just out of curiousity and no flame intended has anyone seen period reference for the use of Mink oil in the 18th century? this kind of goes hand and hand with a post yesterday on Rev War riflemen and how /what the loaded, I was thinking of something like Beaver sack oil, I have used oil.grease from many animals I have shot or trapped but found none to be really better than the other but did not do any really extensive meaningfull tests with controls and such, I have pretty much settled on Bear oil/grease more because I have know a taxidermist for years more than anything else I suppose

I know Kiwi has silicone in it, so what does it do to the barrel after it's fired?:hmm:

I wouldn't shoot it in any of my rifles. Real Mink Oil like from TOW isn't that expensive and does not have extra ingredients in it. I would stick with using Kiwi on my boots or other leathers.

tg said:

Just out of curiousity and no flame intended has anyone seen period reference for the use of Mink oil in the 18th century?

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I have not seen such but believe it is quite possible and sensible,

Now that sounds familiar :grin: