I made up a small batch of bullet lube with some bacon grease added. I cast a batch of .357 and .45 slugs for my revolvers and lubed them with it, the lube was mostly soy wax and half a toilet gasket, the wax in those is sticky enough to keep the lube in the grooves until you shoot and enough bacon grease to make it soft enough to use.
The downside is that the bacon is salty and so one must clean the bore as we did back in the days of corrosive primers and one must shoot the loaded ammo within a couple-three months. Once that grease got rancid it still worked as lube but it stank to high heaven. And the shootin’ iron stunk and so did the shooter. Same problem we had with trying to use beef tallow as an ingredient for bullet lube. All in all, an unsatisfactory experiment. Now with uncured bacon one might not have the salt problem but I dunno how to prevent it from going rancid.
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I made up a small batch of bullet lube with some bacon grease added. I cast a batch of .357 and .45 slugs for my revolvers and lubed them with it, the lube was mostly soy wax and half a toilet gasket, the wax in those is sticky enough to keep the lube in the grooves until you shoot and enough bacon grease to make it soft enough to use.
The downside is that the bacon is salty and so one must clean the bore as we did back in the days of corrosive primers and one must shoot the loaded ammo within a couple-three months. Once that grease got rancid it still worked as lube but it stank to high heaven. And the shootin’ iron stunk and so did the shooter. Same problem we had with trying to use beef tallow as an ingredient for bullet lube. All in all, an unsatisfactory experiment. Now with uncured bacon one might not have the salt problem but I dunno how to prevent it from going rancid.
@4 peter
use it quickly?