Hi Mako,
You'd clearified -
That is not accurate, Dixie did not "PULL" the Mutton Tallow. They cannot get a supply of it. According to them they have been looking and can't find a new source.
I just wanted to make sure it doesn't come across as if they were participating in the hand wringing and hysteria that has brought us to this point.
Regards,
Mako
Ahhhh, okay...I had read in haste and not appreciated the distinction.
If the usual Commercial sources, from which Dixie used to obtain their Mutton Tallow, have with-held the product...one could still very easily make one's own by simply buying Mutton, and, Roasting it, saving and seiving the run off.
My own decision, was to use only non-petroleum kinds of Waxes or Oils for my BP Boolit/Bullet Lube.
Turns out also, far as I can tell, that this works splendidly for Smokeless Metallic Cartridge also.
I use Bee's Wax with a little Olive Oil, ( adding a little Carnuba in Summer maybe ) and, while this is molten, I make strips of regular Paper Towel dipped in to it, which once cool, I cut out small 'discs' with a Gasket Punch, and, these go between Powder and Ball.
Same formula, can be used in one's Bullet Sizing-Lubing Machine for filing the Bullet Grooves with the Lubricant.
Entirely clean, elegent, no mess before during or after use or firing, no leading, no fouling, no dirty Hands form shooting, easy clean up of the Arm...perfect and excellent in every way possible.
Since this has worked so beautifully from the start I have felt no urge to be experimenting further for improvements or for using other based materials.
No doubt a great many different materials could be used, and or will appear to offer some desired properties in merely superficial assay or for merely one order of application, such as loading and shooting with no delay, and having low expectations from prior habituations anyway.
I remember how horrible the entire use of 'Crisco' was, when in the early 1960s my Dad sent off for a reproduction Colt Navy, and, to find a solution for the Chain Fires we were getting, we read to use Crisco on the Chamber ends.
Messy, horrible, yucky.
Yet, many people still do this, and, it ends up defining for them the expectations or understandiungs they will retain.
I have had no Chain Fires using the Lube Wafers and using right fitting Caps.
I have had no Chain Fires at all period in my return to Cap & Ball Revolver a couple years ago...where, from the onset, having surveyed the methods for Lube and for preventing Chain Fires, and, having thought about it critically, I elected the home made, thin Lube Wafer Lube method, and, to use right fitting Caps.
There is no Scientific basis for attributions of an Organic provenance for Petroleum.
No such assertions were ever made on any Scientific or verifiable premis, nor has any basis for making them ever found.
It was a 'Sonoco' advertising campaign which cinched this mis-apprehension into the psyches of the american public, with the use of the Brontosaurus 'mascot'...starting, I think, in the late 1920s.
The Geological origins of Petroleum remain mysterious and undemonstrated.