T/C is back up and running.
Tallow lasts years. I used to make it out of bear fat. So a bear gives you quite a bit. You could refrigerate I guess if worried.
Thompson Center is not out of business. T/C Arms.
I’ve done this..works like a dream.
Bear grease certainly has an indefinite shelf life, I do not know if that also applies to beef tallow. Pretty sure (but not positive) that goose grease also has indefinite shelf life. I have about 3-4 gallons of bear grease that is over 20 years old sitting on a shelf. Still fresh as the day I rendered it.
No it will not go rancid. I have a few different ratio mixes of bees wax and bear grease.
I have some 50/50, some 70 BG/ 30 BW, and a few others. I never use more than 50% BW.
| Buck Emmert's Lube Formula (for black powder) 1750 grains Beeswax 1368 grains Crisco Shortening (White) 328 grains Crisco or Wesson Vegetable Oil 1 pound Bees Wax 1 pound Citronella Candle 2 Tablespoons shortening 50% beeswax, 40% white Crisco 10% canola cooking oil. 6 cups unmelted soy wax. ½ cup Jojoba oil. ½ cup mutton tallow, or you can use beef tallow 1/3 cup unsalted lard. 1/3 cup liquid Bayberry wax. You can thicken this out by adding soy or using less to thin it or add more lard to make it softer. If it gets too hot add Palm Vegetable wax or use block Bayberry wax instead of liquid Bayberry wax. Palm wax melts at about 160* 50% beeswax, 40% Crisco, 5% Canola Oil, 5% Lanolin 6 oz of beef tallow 4 oz bayberry wax 2 oz beeswax 2 oz synthetic sperm oil 1 heaping teaspoon of Moly 6 oz of beeswax 3 oz of bayberry wax 6 oz of bacon grease 1 tablespoon of Dawn soap 2 tablespoon of neatsfoot oil 40% beeswax 30% conola oil 30% lanolin 70% Soywax 20% Avocado oil 10% lanolin One part clean beeswax Three parts deer tallow One canola oil Powdered graphite Modern Sharps Formula 1 part Beeswax 1 part Jojoba oil 1 pound beeswax 1 pound white Crisco 1 pound Mutton Tallow 5 oz. Bag |
