Home grown bullet lube

I had surprisingly good luck using straight tallow. Render down all your fat drippings and reboil until all the salt and other imperfections are out and you've got tallow. It's quite soft though - like a heavy grease, melts in contact with skin. Added some beeswax to firm it up but now find it doesn't stick to bullets as well, so not sure where I'm going to go from there.
 
I use lard and wax store in fridge the lard will go rancid stinks real bad but still works my sizer luber stinks lol.
 
Tandy leather carries beeswax too. You can buy online.
I found Mutton and bear tallow to be superior to Crisco or plain lard. Makes your Colt SAA shoot a few more cylinders before it gunks-up.
Mutton tallow is a bit harder to find but bear tallow is sold at industrial plumbing supply to grease the seals on those concrete or green poly sewer pipe sections.
 
Yup LOTS of ideas and all work... FWIW all I use is olive oil & beeswax mixed roughly 50/50.

I use the olive oil because it's cheap and easy and the wife always has some in the cupboard. Works well and keeps the gun clean and shooting for a long time between shots, depending on temperature. Seems to store forever.
 
A couple of years ago I got 4 lbs of Lubrisol from Ebay. I then got 4 lbs of unrefined bees wax. It smells incredible.

I mix it 50/50 with about 1 ounce of carnuba wax. It is supposed to be slicker than most waxes. I use this in my 45/70 and 50/70. I am really old style as I use the pan and cookie cutter method. I put my bullets in an old fry pan and pour in lube. When it hardens, I use a spent case of the correct diameter to cut out the bullet and the lube that is in the grooves. Then it goes in the fridge to harden. Works very nicely.
 
tbrwlf said:
A couple of years ago I got 4 lbs of Lubrisol from Ebay. I then got 4 lbs of unrefined bees wax. It smells incredible.

I mix it 50/50 with about 1 ounce of carnuba wax. It is supposed to be slicker than most waxes. I use this in my 45/70 and 50/70. I am really old style as I use the pan and cookie cutter method. I put my bullets in an old fry pan and pour in lube. When it hardens, I use a spent case of the correct diameter to cut out the bullet and the lube that is in the grooves. Then it goes in the fridge to harden. Works very nicely.
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rubber trays are so much easier the lube comes out as one big piece all you have to do is push the bullets out from the bottom with a dowel
 
The best lube for soft lead bullets is earwax from male virgins from the Sam tribe of Namibia. Female virgins of that tribe do not have earwax. Mixed 85:10:5 with beeswax, and water pump lube. The melting point of the ear wax is just under 95F....

I prefer this mix over all other bullet lubes but owing to it being next to impossible to find a reliable supplier of earwax I use murphies oil stired in so that the melting point is about 110F ...

Every one has their own favorite lube, most of the lubes work very well...
 
I saved myself the hassle and ordered some from dragonbulletlube.com

I got their NRA and black powder formulations. Look forward to trying them out.
 
Has anyone tried coconut oil? I'm going to start casting by spring, and am curious how well it would work. I find its soft, and goes to liquid at about 28C.
 
NorthCoastBigBore said:
Yup LOTS of ideas and all work... FWIW all I use is olive oil & beeswax mixed roughly 50/50.

I use the olive oil because it's cheap and easy and the wife always has some in the cupboard. Works well and keeps the gun clean and shooting for a long time between shots, depending on temperature. Seems to store forever.
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X 2 on this recipe & the fact that it stores indefinitely
 
H Wally said:
I had surprisingly good luck using straight tallow. Render down all your fat drippings and reboil until all the salt and other imperfections are out and you've got tallow. It's quite soft though - like a heavy grease, melts in contact with skin. Added some beeswax to firm it up but now find it doesn't stick to bullets as well, so not sure where I'm going to go from there.
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Adding Lanolin will make it stick and you only need a tiny bit
 
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