Ballistol

[RobD]

for long term bore protection, and if a natural organic ingredient is required, i use mutton tallow which won't go rancid as olive oil will.

[Bigsmoke]

Somewhere I read that German troops even used Ballistol to flavor their food.  

After trying it, I'll stick with water and a good gun oil for my muzzleloaders.  

Must go to show just how bad the food the German troops had to eat was.

I consider the stuff to have the aromatic characteristic of a very dirty cat box with 6 soiled jock straps thrown in the mix for flavor.  Actually, I think it smells worse than that, but it's close.

What was the saying I heard the other day?  Smells bad enough to knock a maggot off a gut wagon.  Something like that.

John

[Riley/MN]

I have never gotten a bore clean enough that a fresh ballistol patch didn't come out at least grey if not dark. It just seems to pull the stuff out! I usually leave my bores wet with it after cleaning and then run alky-all through before I shoot to clean it out.