mehulkamdar
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Hello everyone,
This is an old dilemma that seems to have come up from a discussion on another forum. One of my close friends who has several muzzleloaders and who taught me to shoot my only one (a Knight American 50 cal which I bought at a discount for $ 100) uses a water based grease (the kind that is sold at ahrdware stores like Ace ) to lubricate the 320 grain cast bullets that he home brews. My friend has had no problem at all with this formula and he shoots more rounds in a week than I probably do in a year.
However, on a different forum, I was warned that this was a problem as the water based grease would varnish the insides of my barrel and destroy it, and I have stopped using it for this reason. When this question came up, again, on a third forum where I am a moderator, I thought that the best place to post this would be over here.
With the moderators' permission, I would like to mention this forum on the other one (without copying and posting the replies from here as I do not want to offend anyone) and would be grateful to everyone for your suggestions on this.
Thank you for all answers and best wishes and good hunting!
This is an old dilemma that seems to have come up from a discussion on another forum. One of my close friends who has several muzzleloaders and who taught me to shoot my only one (a Knight American 50 cal which I bought at a discount for $ 100) uses a water based grease (the kind that is sold at ahrdware stores like Ace ) to lubricate the 320 grain cast bullets that he home brews. My friend has had no problem at all with this formula and he shoots more rounds in a week than I probably do in a year.
However, on a different forum, I was warned that this was a problem as the water based grease would varnish the insides of my barrel and destroy it, and I have stopped using it for this reason. When this question came up, again, on a third forum where I am a moderator, I thought that the best place to post this would be over here.
With the moderators' permission, I would like to mention this forum on the other one (without copying and posting the replies from here as I do not want to offend anyone) and would be grateful to everyone for your suggestions on this.
Thank you for all answers and best wishes and good hunting!
