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Crisco, good lube for black powder?

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May 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/10/99
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James Pollock wrote:

# I've heard tale of using Crisco with muzzleloading firearms, and I want to
# ask a couple questions. With my ruger old army 45, the gunstore reccommended
# plugging the cylinders with a special grease compound to keep the other
# cylinders from firing prematurely as you fire the pistol. (Made sense to me).
# Seems to me that crisco would work fine for this purpose. Any thoughts on
# this?
#
# What about going a step further and using Crisco as an expensive bullet lube
# for muzzleloading buffalo bullets, conicals, etc? What about using it as a
# patch lube?
#
# My obsession with using criso for lubes? Low cost. And an awareness that in
# 1840 they probably used some sort of animal fat or grease or
# something...aka... a shortening.
#
# Thoughts?
#
# Please cc: ja...@tricountyi.net in case i dont read response here.

17 Mar 99

Crisco contains table salt. Know what that does to metal???

Engr/Tech Support
comcentr/mm

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May 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/11/99
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# James Pollock wrote:
#
# # I've heard tale of using Crisco with muzzleloading firearms, and I want to
# # ask a couple questions. With my ruger old army 45, the gunstore reccommended
#

I've been told you dont need the messy grease with wonder wads.

I also would be inclined to use Bore Butter or some other non-petro
Black powder product.
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CRCooper

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May 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/11/99
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#James Pollock wrote:
#
## I've heard tale of using Crisco with muzzleloading firearms, and I want to
## ask a couple questions. With my ruger old army 45, the gunstore
#reccommended
## plugging the cylinders with a special grease compound

I shoot a lot of .44 Cap and Ball with Pyrodex and Goex in several reproduction
1858 Remingtons. I have never used any sort of grease cover (Crisco, or others)
over my loaded chambers, and I have never had a chain fire.

I load a 25 to 30 gr powder charge in each chamber and cover the charge with a
.44/.45Cal pre lubricated felt Wonder Wad. I then place the ball on top of the
Wonder Wad and seat the whole load with the ram, shaving off a little sliver
from the ball.

I store my Wonder Wads and .44 Cal lead balls together in a small plastic box
(holds about 75 each wads and balls), and premix (read that "shaken, not
stirred") the contents with a good "slug" of Thompson Center Bore Butter lube
before loading these into my revolvers.

Makes a great load system for me and easy to keep clean, without the problem of
chainfires or massive grease deposits.

Coop

Doug Owen

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May 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/12/99
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comm center wrote:
#
#
# Crisco contains table salt. Know what that does to metal???
#
#

Yup, and BP contains nitrates, reason enough to clean the gun
afterwards. Just like guys for the last few hundred years....

Chrisco has been used by too many thousands of guys with dead animals on
their heads for too many years to have such 'newly discovered' problems.

Since the demise of real bear fat some years back, I suspect more guys
use Chrisco than anything else. For sure all the ones worth trusting
have tried it.

Doug Owen

Eric Engler

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May 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/12/99
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I have shot competition BP for many years. If you are not using wonder
wads you need crisco or an equivalent to keep from having a chain fire.

CRCooper wrote:
> ...

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William Harvey

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May 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/12/99
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On 10 May 1999 20:51:53 -0400, comm center <par...@netside.com> wrote:

#
#


#James Pollock wrote:
#
## I've heard tale of using Crisco with muzzleloading firearms, and I want to

## ask a couple questions. With my ruger old army 45, the gunstore reccommended
## plugging the cylinders with a special grease compound to keep the other
## cylinders from firing prematurely as you fire the pistol. (Made sense to me).
## Seems to me that crisco would work fine for this purpose. Any thoughts on
## this?
##
## What about going a step further and using Crisco as an expensive bullet lube
## for muzzleloading buffalo bullets, conicals, etc? What about using it as a
## patch lube?
##
## My obsession with using criso for lubes? Low cost. And an awareness that in
## 1840 they probably used some sort of animal fat or grease or
## something...aka... a shortening.
##
## Thoughts?
##
## Please cc: ja...@tricountyi.net in case i dont read response here.
#
#17 Mar 99
#
#Crisco contains table salt. Know what that does to metal???
#
#Engr/Tech Support
#comcentr/mm
#
It may or may not have salt, don't know myself but Crisco is the lube
used with an awful large number of loads listed in the Lyman Black
Powder Manual so it can't be too bad.

BTW == James, Crisco could be 25% salt and it wouldn't make any
difference. Once the gun is fired the salts formed from the gun
powder are for more corrosive that simple table salt. If it isn't
cleaned in a timely matter, meaning that day after shooting, it will
be ruined by rust very quickly anyway.

William Harvey
wha...@win.net
http://www.win.net/~wharvey

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