Another Balistol question

[Felonious]

Ballistiol it's fantastic if it actually stays on the part that you're trying to keep clean. It's a thin oil, so it wipes off easily and leaves room for oxidation. A lot of people give it a bad reputation for this, but it's really just easy to clean, that's it. I like using it for internal parts that aren't exposed to anything outside of the gun.

 

[Greenjoytj]

In my near 40 years of working with industrial equipment & lubricants. Ballistol never even came into our discussion.

The properties of mineral oil have been known for a long time and Ballistol being mineral oil with a bad scent added further testing on a such a product with all ready well documented components ingredients wouldn’t be worth the cost of more testing.

I will stick with using a more modern synthetic gun oil, which is likely just a base mineral oil that has been passed through the process to make it now considered a synthetic oil.

Most muzzle loading traditionalist would swoon over the opportunity to use real whale oil but that’s not an option now. So I have also been using a synthetic version, a variation of ATF made by Lubegard that is based on Jojoba seed oil. It has been working very and has no bad scent like Ballistol.

https://www.lubegard.com/products/val/

 

[wiscoaster]

Ballistol is ok , but the price is ridiculous! I had a friend in high school, he could handle his just cleaned 30-30 slathered in oil and still get rusty fingerprints on it. I loaned him a 22, got it back rusty. He said he cleaned and oiled it, his mom told me his dad and grandpa had the same problem- whatever they touched corroded. Body chemistry?

Good point. Fingerprints are absolutely the worst for gunmetal.

 

[wiscoaster]

....Ballistol being mineral oil with a bad scent added ...

Hah!! Ballistol makes me sneeze. But I use it anyway. I just wish they made an "unscented" version.

 

[zipmark964]

I switch over to Ballistol for all of my guns about 4 years ago or so. No rust on any of them.