Deer tallow.

[yomomma]

Just rendered some deer fat.

Anyone use this as a bullet lube? I guess common amongst BP purists.

 

[freire]

for my BP bullet lube i use 50% beeswax-40% crisco-10% olive oil, but i'm sure there are lots of people using tallow.
Tallow was probably the most used lube back in the day.

 

[Grock-co]

Rendered Deer fat who does that,

 

[yomomma]

I do.

 

[freire]

Rendered Deer fat who does that,

BP purists.

 

[freire]

And yomomma

 

[fingers284]

it might as well be good for something...sure as he!! no good to eat...I throw out a half a five gallon bucket of "good boolit lube" every time I butcher one of the buggers it guess.

 

[yomomma]

Some of my research.

The list of commonly used bullets lubes over the years is interesting:

US Army 1855 - 1 part beeswax, 3 parts tallow
US Army 1861 - 8 parts beeswax, 1 part tallow
US Army 1873 - 8 parts bayberry wax, 1 part graphite
US Army 1880 - Japan wax
Sharps Rifle Co. 1878 - 1 part beeswax, 2 parts sperm oil.
Maynard Rifle 1890 - 1 part beeswax, 3 parts tallow
Marlin Firearms Co. 1891 - 1 part beeswax, 4 parts tallow
S&W 1891 - tallow
H.M. Pope 1900 - 3 parts mutton tallow, 2 parts bay wax, 1 part beeswax, 1 part steam cylinder oil, .2 of 1 part Acheson graphite. (The bay wax can be omitted)

 

[freezer filler]

Rendered Deer fat who does that,

Nearly 1000 posts without buying something...who does that?

 

[curseyou]

it might as well be good for something...sure as he!! no good to eat...I throw out a half a five gallon bucket of "good boolit lube" every time I butcher one of the buggers it guess.

make soap?

 

[MuthaFunk]

Nearly 1000 posts without buying something...who does that?

Lol!!

 

[nate18]

make soap?

i guess it would make you smell like deer before you go hunt more deer hahaha.

 

[saskgunowner101]

Had a good laugh reading the back and forth retorts. I always wondered how deer tallow would work for bullet lube. I have some rendered beef fat/lard that works great for BP and cap n ball bullet lube (and bannock!). Wonder if it would smell like it tastes though?

 

[yomomma]

From what I have read deer tallow is harder and should work better than beef tallow.