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<blockquote data-quote="FrontierGander" data-source="post: 3620501" data-attributes="member: 8487"><p>I found this while searching for patch lube recipes and wanted to share.</p><p></p><p>-------------</p><p></p><p>I tried the Wonder 1000 theory, and I'd love to see someone</p><p>actually do that. I've watched 5 different guys try it, and the record</p><p>is 8</p><p>shots, same as I got. Of course, another way to look at it is: on any</p><p>given day that I am hunting deer with it and I get off 10 shots and</p><p>don't have a deer to show for it, I probably ought to go home and give</p><p>some serious consideration to what I am doing wrong.</p><p></p><p>Tony,</p><p></p><p>You have no idea how much humor has come out of Ox-Yoke's claims on the</p><p>1000 Shot Plus lube. To the point where some of us now call them</p><p>Ox-Joke. With any of my three BP rifles "an historic feat" is getting the</p><p>4th ball down the bore without resorting to a bigger hammer.</p><p>I'll run you through the full story since the snow has started to fall.</p><p>Lets go back to the early 1980's.</p><p></p><p>A shooter/buckskinner by the name of Young, living in California, went</p><p>to the range one day and forgot his patch lube. In utter desperation he</p><p>whips out a tube of Chap-Stick and smears it on a few patches. Lo &</p><p>Behold it worked better than the lube he had been using. Several of his</p><p>buddies tried his idea and reported it worked well. So Young then</p><p>tracked down the source of Chap- Stick which is a common lip balm</p><p>formulation that has been floating around since the late 19th century.</p><p>Chap-Stick is petrolatum (petroleum jelly) with 5% cetyl alcohol and</p><p>water. The cetyl alcohol acting as the emulsifyer. With the cetyl</p><p>alcohol the water forms minute beads within the petrolatum. Without the</p><p>cetyl alcohol you can't get the water to mix in any way with the</p><p>petrolatum. Huge quantities of cetyl alcohol are used in the production</p><p>of PVC emulsion resins used in kitchen flooring. (My old job was as an</p><p>R&D</p><p>Tech. on these resins.) The petrolatum is the moisture barrier and</p><p>carrier for a topical agent used to soothe chapped lips. The water</p><p>emulsified into the petrolatum reduces the drag of the "stick" when you</p><p>apply it to your lips and acts as the moisturizing agent. Young then</p><p>finds a place to buy Chap-Stick in bulk and packages it as Young Country</p><p>Arms 103 Lube. That his lube and Chap->Stick are identical in every</p><p>respect, right down to the color, suggested he simply bought from the</p><p>makers of Chap-Stick in bulk quantities. Now Ted Bottomly had started</p><p>Ox-Yoke and made pre-cut patches and packs of patch cloth. He wanted a</p><p>patch lube to round out his line. He bought the first Ox-Yoke lube from</p><p>Young. When I first saw them I was at the late C.P. Wood's house in West</p><p>Virginia. Woody was looking at a 4 ounce container</p><p>of Young Country 103 and a 3 ounce container of Ox-Yoke's patch lube.</p><p>Both were identical in every respect, including color. You paid the same</p><p>price for 3 ounces of Ox-Yoke's lube as you paid for 4 ounces of Young's</p><p>lube. The logical conclusion would be that Ox-Yoke was buying from Young</p><p>and the missing ounce was Ox-Yoke's profit on the deal.</p><p></p><p>Both were advertising their respective lubes in the magazines. Young</p><p>advertised that you could fire a hundred rounds without wiping the bore</p><p>with his lube. Three months later, Ox-Yoke would advertise that when you</p><p>used their lube you could fire 200 rounds without wiping the bore. The 3</p><p>month lag time in the mags being the lag time in getting adds scheduled.</p><p>This went on, each one upping the ante, so to speak.</p><p>Those of us connected with the Buckskin Report discussed this in letters</p><p>and thought it a great joke.</p><p></p><p>The others in the field at that time were Hodgdon with their "Spit-Patch"</p><p>which was nothing more than beeswax emulsified in water with a soap.</p><p>Then there was T/C Maxi-Lube which was nothing more than the same</p><p>petroleum grease they used to grease the bearings in their machines.</p><p>Blue and Grey products was selling an automotive wheel bearing grease</p><p>that had been pigmented, not dyed, blue. I receieved several letters from</p><p>Doc Carlson. He was seeing BP muzzleloaders come into his shop with</p><p>balls or slugs stuck in the bore just ahead of the powder charge. You</p><p>could not pull these projectiles by any normal method.</p><p>He would have to remove the breech plugs, pull the charge and beat them</p><p>out of the bore, toward the muzzle with a heavy rod and a hammer. He</p><p>described the presence of a black tar-like film in the bore where the</p><p>projectiles had been frozen in place. The common thread in this being</p><p>that the shooter had used one of the "petroleum-based" lubes. I had to</p><p>explain to Doc that the petroleum greases were nothing more than</p><p>petroleum lubricating oils that had been "bodied" by the addition of</p><p>metallic soaps such as calcium or cadmium stearate. With a petroleum</p><p>lubricating oil, or grease, anytime you heat them to a high temperature</p><p>in the presence of sulfur you get asphalt. The way asphalts were</p><p>produced was to take crude oil and sulfur in an autoclave. Heat the</p><p>mixture to 600 degrees for about 8 hours</p><p>and you had road tar. Which is about what was happening in the gun.</p><p>Since the repackaged Chap-Stick was a petroleum wax it did not form</p><p>asphalt with sulfur and high temperatures. I then wrote an article for</p><p>the Backwoodsman magazine and compared the behavior of the two Chap-Stick</p><p>lubes to the behavior of sperm whale oil when it had been used in black</p><p>powder guns.</p><p></p><p>Well, Old Ted Bottomly jumped right onto that one. three months later</p><p>he starts advertising that his lube is "all-natural, non-petroleum" and</p><p>authentic, using what our ancesters had used. At that point I figured</p><p>his parents were to Christian to call him asshole so they settled for</p><p>Bottomly. By about 1984, Bottomly and Young had a falling out over</p><p>pricing. The one ounce shy thing with Ox-Yoke pushed most of the</p><p>customers to Young's lube. Same thing, same price but more of it with</p><p>Young Country 103. And by this time we were up to 800 rounds between</p><p>swabbings. Technology marches on. Bottomy came out with his first Wonder</p><p>Lube. Years of research went into this lube, or so he claimed. Now at</p><p>this time Ox-Yoke was located in West Suffield, CT. A short time later I</p><p>was searching the drugstore shelves looking for petrolatum-based skin</p><p>care products or salves that I coulde repackage and become a millionaire</p><p>. I spotted this tube of something</p><p>called "Mineral Ice". Menthol in petrolatum. Made by a Dermatone</p><p>Laboratories located in Suffield, CT. Out comes the map. just by a</p><p>mere coincidence both companies were located just across the river from</p><p>each other. This of course raised doubts as to the "years of research"</p><p>comments out of Bottomly. The new Wonder Lube went into the lab. Proved</p><p>to be mineral oil, paraffin wax, a yellow dye and oil of wintergreen. A</p><p>book at work on fats, waxes and oils nailed this one down to a common</p><p>chest rub preparation for those with head colds who could not tolerate</p><p>camphorated oil. Again it was billed as "all-natural and non-petroleum".</p><p>Never mind that paraffin wax comes from paraffinic crude oils and mineral</p><p>oil comes from napthenic crude oils, the yellow dye and the oil of</p><p>wintergreen should convince anybody that it is all-natural and</p><p>non-petroleum. Given the wax and oil, I simply refer to this type of lube</p><p>as a remanufactured vaseline. With the yellow dye the rubes will swear</p><p>it is beeswax.</p><p></p><p>One thing about con artists is that they are never content to leave a</p><p>con artest for any length of time. In 1990, Bottomly comes out with a</p><p>new version called 1000 Shot Plus lube. High-technology now made</p><p>possible a lube that eliminated fouling, eliminated the need to clean and</p><p>would totally stop bore corrosion. Bottomly searched the world for this</p><p>modern technology and found it in Germany after years of searching. This</p><p>advance in this lube was made possible by this</p><p>secret micronizing agent. It gave the lube a micron particle size that</p><p>made all of this advancement possible. At that point his chest thumping</p><p>ego trip gave away the formula. This secret micronizing agent is no real</p><p>secret and has been around for over 100 years. It is nothing more than a</p><p>fossil wax mined in Germany. The same time of wax used to be mined in</p><p>Utah as Utah Wax but the mine closed for lack of business.</p><p>Paraffin wax is a hard brittle wax that forms huge crystals. When you</p><p>look at a block of paraffin wax sold for food canning you see lines on</p><p>the surface of the blocks of wax. Those are the lines denoting crystal</p><p>size. It had been found that if you added this fossil wax to paraffin</p><p>wax it would reduce the size of these crystals, though nowhere near a</p><p>micron in size. Paraffin wax was limited in which skin care and salve</p><p>formulations it could be used in because of the macro-crystallinty of it.</p><p>This made it unsuited to preparations where hardness and brittleness</p><p>were objectionable. By using the fossiol wax addition the paraffin wax</p><p>could replace more expensive waxes in these products. But when you lay</p><p>this type of Techno-Nonsense on a bunch of ignorant rube BP shooters they</p><p>will beat a path to your door, wallet in hand.</p><p></p><p>Now, to get back to an historic feat of 3 shots without swabbing the</p><p>bore. The problem with this type of lube is that as long as the surface</p><p>temperature of the bore is above the melting point of the wax, about 40</p><p>to 45 C, the fouling deposited by the combustion of the powder will slide</p><p>off the metal when pressure is applied to it. When the surface</p><p>temperature of the bore is below the melting point of the wax it will act</p><p>as an adhesive and hold the fouling to the surface. The unburned</p><p>charcaol in the powder fouling will adsorb most of the mineral oil</p><p>present in the lube. This turns it into an oily sludge that simply</p><p>builds up in the breech with repeated loading of the gun. After a few</p><p>rounds are fired in a flinter you have the oily sludge being blown out of</p><p>the vent which then coats the flint and frizzen. Lubricated flints</p><p>strike no sparks.</p><p>Now for the real punch line. With the addition of the micronizing agent</p><p>they doubled the amount of dye used so the new lube was more orange in</p><p>color, compared to the lemon yellow of the previous version, and they</p><p>doubled the amount of oil of wintergreen. Convince the rubes that it is</p><p>now even more natural. During the past few years there has been much</p><p>bitching about the quality of Ox-Joke's pre-lubed patches. I have seen</p><p>packs in the store where the lube had turned hard and brown. The mineral</p><p>oil migrates out of the paraffin wax into the low density polyethlene</p><p>used in the bags. This makes the lube hard and brittle. It goes back to</p><p>paraffin wax properties. With these an historic feat is getting the</p><p>second ball down the barrel without wiping. Ox-Joke supplies T/C with</p><p>Bore Butter which is only a slight modification</p><p>of Ox-Joke's standard formula.</p><p></p><p>Remember the dbate about blowing down the barrel on the message boards.</p><p>My off line joke was that as long as you use the repackaged Chap-Stick as</p><p>a patch lube you would not get chapped lips from blowing down a cold</p><p>barrel.</p><p></p><p>Then their was Uncle Mike's Apple Green patch lube. Another paraffin</p><p>wax/mineral oil lube with methylsalicin in it. Nothing more than a</p><p>repackaged arthritis salve. I can tell you that is was very effective on</p><p>a knee suffereing degenerative joint disease. So if you are going to go</p><p>out in those North Woods in winter weather to hunt the elusive whitetail</p><p>you ought to take all three lubes along. Prevent chapped lips, take care</p><p>of chest colds and arthritic joints from all of the hoofing through the</p><p>snow. No reason for you to return home in anything less than the best of</p><p>health in spite ot the weather. Might be a good idea to take along one of</p><p>the ascorbic acid-based powders since that is vitamin C. Then Goex's</p><p>sugar-based powder might make an emergency trail food.</p><p></p><p>I joke with Dixon that it is bad enough we have to deal with the ATF,</p><p>what next with these products, the Food and Drug Administration too???</p><p>Well, time to go sit out on the deck for a smoke and listen to the snow</p><p>flakes fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrontierGander, post: 3620501, member: 8487"] I found this while searching for patch lube recipes and wanted to share. ------------- I tried the Wonder 1000 theory, and I'd love to see someone actually do that. I've watched 5 different guys try it, and the record is 8 shots, same as I got. Of course, another way to look at it is: on any given day that I am hunting deer with it and I get off 10 shots and don't have a deer to show for it, I probably ought to go home and give some serious consideration to what I am doing wrong. Tony, You have no idea how much humor has come out of Ox-Yoke's claims on the 1000 Shot Plus lube. To the point where some of us now call them Ox-Joke. With any of my three BP rifles "an historic feat" is getting the 4th ball down the bore without resorting to a bigger hammer. I'll run you through the full story since the snow has started to fall. Lets go back to the early 1980's. A shooter/buckskinner by the name of Young, living in California, went to the range one day and forgot his patch lube. In utter desperation he whips out a tube of Chap-Stick and smears it on a few patches. Lo & Behold it worked better than the lube he had been using. Several of his buddies tried his idea and reported it worked well. So Young then tracked down the source of Chap- Stick which is a common lip balm formulation that has been floating around since the late 19th century. Chap-Stick is petrolatum (petroleum jelly) with 5% cetyl alcohol and water. The cetyl alcohol acting as the emulsifyer. With the cetyl alcohol the water forms minute beads within the petrolatum. Without the cetyl alcohol you can't get the water to mix in any way with the petrolatum. Huge quantities of cetyl alcohol are used in the production of PVC emulsion resins used in kitchen flooring. (My old job was as an R&D Tech. on these resins.) The petrolatum is the moisture barrier and carrier for a topical agent used to soothe chapped lips. The water emulsified into the petrolatum reduces the drag of the "stick" when you apply it to your lips and acts as the moisturizing agent. Young then finds a place to buy Chap-Stick in bulk and packages it as Young Country Arms 103 Lube. That his lube and Chap->Stick are identical in every respect, right down to the color, suggested he simply bought from the makers of Chap-Stick in bulk quantities. Now Ted Bottomly had started Ox-Yoke and made pre-cut patches and packs of patch cloth. He wanted a patch lube to round out his line. He bought the first Ox-Yoke lube from Young. When I first saw them I was at the late C.P. Wood's house in West Virginia. Woody was looking at a 4 ounce container of Young Country 103 and a 3 ounce container of Ox-Yoke's patch lube. Both were identical in every respect, including color. You paid the same price for 3 ounces of Ox-Yoke's lube as you paid for 4 ounces of Young's lube. The logical conclusion would be that Ox-Yoke was buying from Young and the missing ounce was Ox-Yoke's profit on the deal. Both were advertising their respective lubes in the magazines. Young advertised that you could fire a hundred rounds without wiping the bore with his lube. Three months later, Ox-Yoke would advertise that when you used their lube you could fire 200 rounds without wiping the bore. The 3 month lag time in the mags being the lag time in getting adds scheduled. This went on, each one upping the ante, so to speak. Those of us connected with the Buckskin Report discussed this in letters and thought it a great joke. The others in the field at that time were Hodgdon with their "Spit-Patch" which was nothing more than beeswax emulsified in water with a soap. Then there was T/C Maxi-Lube which was nothing more than the same petroleum grease they used to grease the bearings in their machines. Blue and Grey products was selling an automotive wheel bearing grease that had been pigmented, not dyed, blue. I receieved several letters from Doc Carlson. He was seeing BP muzzleloaders come into his shop with balls or slugs stuck in the bore just ahead of the powder charge. You could not pull these projectiles by any normal method. He would have to remove the breech plugs, pull the charge and beat them out of the bore, toward the muzzle with a heavy rod and a hammer. He described the presence of a black tar-like film in the bore where the projectiles had been frozen in place. The common thread in this being that the shooter had used one of the "petroleum-based" lubes. I had to explain to Doc that the petroleum greases were nothing more than petroleum lubricating oils that had been "bodied" by the addition of metallic soaps such as calcium or cadmium stearate. With a petroleum lubricating oil, or grease, anytime you heat them to a high temperature in the presence of sulfur you get asphalt. The way asphalts were produced was to take crude oil and sulfur in an autoclave. Heat the mixture to 600 degrees for about 8 hours and you had road tar. Which is about what was happening in the gun. Since the repackaged Chap-Stick was a petroleum wax it did not form asphalt with sulfur and high temperatures. I then wrote an article for the Backwoodsman magazine and compared the behavior of the two Chap-Stick lubes to the behavior of sperm whale oil when it had been used in black powder guns. Well, Old Ted Bottomly jumped right onto that one. three months later he starts advertising that his lube is "all-natural, non-petroleum" and authentic, using what our ancesters had used. At that point I figured his parents were to Christian to call him asshole so they settled for Bottomly. By about 1984, Bottomly and Young had a falling out over pricing. The one ounce shy thing with Ox-Yoke pushed most of the customers to Young's lube. Same thing, same price but more of it with Young Country 103. And by this time we were up to 800 rounds between swabbings. Technology marches on. Bottomy came out with his first Wonder Lube. Years of research went into this lube, or so he claimed. Now at this time Ox-Yoke was located in West Suffield, CT. A short time later I was searching the drugstore shelves looking for petrolatum-based skin care products or salves that I coulde repackage and become a millionaire . I spotted this tube of something called "Mineral Ice". Menthol in petrolatum. Made by a Dermatone Laboratories located in Suffield, CT. Out comes the map. just by a mere coincidence both companies were located just across the river from each other. This of course raised doubts as to the "years of research" comments out of Bottomly. The new Wonder Lube went into the lab. Proved to be mineral oil, paraffin wax, a yellow dye and oil of wintergreen. A book at work on fats, waxes and oils nailed this one down to a common chest rub preparation for those with head colds who could not tolerate camphorated oil. Again it was billed as "all-natural and non-petroleum". Never mind that paraffin wax comes from paraffinic crude oils and mineral oil comes from napthenic crude oils, the yellow dye and the oil of wintergreen should convince anybody that it is all-natural and non-petroleum. Given the wax and oil, I simply refer to this type of lube as a remanufactured vaseline. With the yellow dye the rubes will swear it is beeswax. One thing about con artists is that they are never content to leave a con artest for any length of time. In 1990, Bottomly comes out with a new version called 1000 Shot Plus lube. High-technology now made possible a lube that eliminated fouling, eliminated the need to clean and would totally stop bore corrosion. Bottomly searched the world for this modern technology and found it in Germany after years of searching. This advance in this lube was made possible by this secret micronizing agent. It gave the lube a micron particle size that made all of this advancement possible. At that point his chest thumping ego trip gave away the formula. This secret micronizing agent is no real secret and has been around for over 100 years. It is nothing more than a fossil wax mined in Germany. The same time of wax used to be mined in Utah as Utah Wax but the mine closed for lack of business. Paraffin wax is a hard brittle wax that forms huge crystals. When you look at a block of paraffin wax sold for food canning you see lines on the surface of the blocks of wax. Those are the lines denoting crystal size. It had been found that if you added this fossil wax to paraffin wax it would reduce the size of these crystals, though nowhere near a micron in size. Paraffin wax was limited in which skin care and salve formulations it could be used in because of the macro-crystallinty of it. This made it unsuited to preparations where hardness and brittleness were objectionable. By using the fossiol wax addition the paraffin wax could replace more expensive waxes in these products. But when you lay this type of Techno-Nonsense on a bunch of ignorant rube BP shooters they will beat a path to your door, wallet in hand. Now, to get back to an historic feat of 3 shots without swabbing the bore. The problem with this type of lube is that as long as the surface temperature of the bore is above the melting point of the wax, about 40 to 45 C, the fouling deposited by the combustion of the powder will slide off the metal when pressure is applied to it. When the surface temperature of the bore is below the melting point of the wax it will act as an adhesive and hold the fouling to the surface. The unburned charcaol in the powder fouling will adsorb most of the mineral oil present in the lube. This turns it into an oily sludge that simply builds up in the breech with repeated loading of the gun. After a few rounds are fired in a flinter you have the oily sludge being blown out of the vent which then coats the flint and frizzen. Lubricated flints strike no sparks. Now for the real punch line. With the addition of the micronizing agent they doubled the amount of dye used so the new lube was more orange in color, compared to the lemon yellow of the previous version, and they doubled the amount of oil of wintergreen. Convince the rubes that it is now even more natural. During the past few years there has been much bitching about the quality of Ox-Joke's pre-lubed patches. I have seen packs in the store where the lube had turned hard and brown. The mineral oil migrates out of the paraffin wax into the low density polyethlene used in the bags. This makes the lube hard and brittle. It goes back to paraffin wax properties. With these an historic feat is getting the second ball down the barrel without wiping. Ox-Joke supplies T/C with Bore Butter which is only a slight modification of Ox-Joke's standard formula. Remember the dbate about blowing down the barrel on the message boards. My off line joke was that as long as you use the repackaged Chap-Stick as a patch lube you would not get chapped lips from blowing down a cold barrel. Then their was Uncle Mike's Apple Green patch lube. Another paraffin wax/mineral oil lube with methylsalicin in it. Nothing more than a repackaged arthritis salve. I can tell you that is was very effective on a knee suffereing degenerative joint disease. So if you are going to go out in those North Woods in winter weather to hunt the elusive whitetail you ought to take all three lubes along. Prevent chapped lips, take care of chest colds and arthritic joints from all of the hoofing through the snow. No reason for you to return home in anything less than the best of health in spite ot the weather. Might be a good idea to take along one of the ascorbic acid-based powders since that is vitamin C. Then Goex's sugar-based powder might make an emergency trail food. I joke with Dixon that it is bad enough we have to deal with the ATF, what next with these products, the Food and Drug Administration too??? Well, time to go sit out on the deck for a smoke and listen to the snow flakes fall. [/QUOTE]
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