Minie Ball Lube Recipe?

[debalan]

I'm returning to shooting my re-pro .58 cal C.W. springfield musket after a lull of 25 years and I just don't remember what minie ball lube ingredients or proportions I used to use. I know it was partly bee"s wax and I would dip 50 or more at a time in the heated liquid lube in a flat basket I made from hardware cloth wire. Any ideas on what would work well as a recipe for hot dip minie ball lube?

 

[jdstrang]

Hey, welcome back! As you may recall, there are more lube recipes than there are minie shooters, and there's a LOT o' minie shooters.

Here's a starting point: 50% beeswax, 50% Crisco, with a tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil per pound of the other components. For real cold weather, more Crisco. For midsummer heat, more beeswax.

 

[arquebus]

After using a home brewed recipe for a few years I switched to SPG Lube for all my bullets & Minies, it works great & isn't expensive when you buy it by the block rather than the sticks.

 

[windwalker_au]

arquebus rooster red black powder 7 lube is very good as well and cheep and has i high melt temp aswell,
200 plus f.
bernie :grin:

 

[arquebus]

Thanks for the tip, may give it a go some day. Do you shoot at the Mandurah Range?

 

[windwalker_au]

arquebus i some times shoot at the pinjar range up by wanaroo at the perth muzzuloaders but it is a 148 k round trip.i most times shoot at southern districts up at bedfordale onley 6 klicks from me but t is not a big range.i did not no mandurah had a range lol
.bernie :grin:

 

[arquebus]

No, you're right, I meant the Pinjar range. I was trying to cast my memory back too far, I guess. I shot up at Waneroo in 1979 at the Lever Action National Championships, they had a giant Model 94 Winchester on the roof of the clubnouse! That was back in the days of Stan Ruwoldt & all those guys from Perth & Danny & Billy Mitchell and Kevin Caimonos from Albany. Good times!!

 

[windwalker_au]

pinjar range is twice the size now they have afew new clubs up there, the big bore rifle club the guys with the big double's a friend is a member there he shoots
.375 h&h ruger #1 and a 450 nitro on a ruger #1.its
quite a sight seeing all those big bores shooting .
bernie :thumbsup: