Well, ask five muzzleloaders, get 12 answers.
Really, being a competitor, I'm always on the lookout for a better lube/bullet/powder combination. I'm not satisfied with the current load in my 62 Springfield, Rapine Trashcan minie, Lens Lube, 44g 3f Old E, RWS caps. While it does shoot remarkably well at 50yds, like one ragged hole, it starts to lose it at 100yds, like about 8in groups. So I'm thinking it's going unstable.
Fast forward to yesterday, I met a guy who informed me that tallow was available at Whole Foods, so from what I've read, it's a go to for lube recipies. The best lube I've found so far for general use is beexwax/lard, so I bought a jar of bison tallow to try instead of lard, mixed it 60/40 beeswax and tested. The RCBS Hogdon minie generally is just so so in this gun, but with the bison tallow, it put 3 shots into one ragged hole at 50 and I know from other guns I have it's still stable at 100. I ran 20 shots straight of 4 different minie types and the Hogdon grouped far and away the best and in the string of 20 straight, wiping was not needed and the minies went down fairly easy.
So to my question- I'd like to make the lube a bit "softer" and retest strictly with the Hogdons. What do you guys use to soften bullet lube? I'm thinking of EVO. I have a limited amount of this experimental lube, and don't want to screw it up and have to start from scratch.