Think most third graders can put together a bullet lube formula. 

Add two table spoons of olive oil to SPG and go for it. And, it smells nice.

    Joe.

Boats,

Thanks for the kind words...that was exactly my goal when I developed SPG Lube; a lube that you didn't have to worry about from cold weather to hot or with different powders and/or calibers.

Joe,

Were you using the SPG/Olive Oil thing at Butte?

Steve

boats wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2013 at 9:31pm:

+1 on SPG. Prefer to spend my time on load development until I find something that works. Then prefer to spend my time shooting. Loading is something I do in order to shoot. If I could purchase ammo for what it costs to load I would do so. Only 1400 more bullets to cast and am set for next season. Pan lubing will make that task faster/easier/better.

I'm in the same mind-set as Boats. I love to shoot accurate, vintage, single shot rifles. To do that, I have to load my own cartridges ( and I'm notoriously cheap !!). After spending quite some time messing with lube formulas, I decided that it was one aspect of shooting that was taking too much of my free time. SPG allows me more time to pursue goal #1 (shooting). The pan lubing method Steve described is the one I use. Never had a problem with lube loss from the bullet.
Tom W.

digitall423 wrote on Dec 24^th, 2013 at 7:21am:

There is a small town in OK by the name of Bug Tussle (Bugtussle?), north of McAlester. Famous as the home of a former speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, Carl Albert, some number of years back ('71-77), who invoked his home town quite often in speeches. I understand he also used SPG.

Well, I will put my vote in with the crowd that uses SPG because it works. Besides, Steve is a friend of mine, I worked for him for about 5 years (and we are still friends). As far as cost, I have won enough SPG here and there at rifle matches to last me a long long time. Anybody could do the same, Steve and Sheryll donate to their products to matches all over this country. Thanks, Boss.
kootne (your old cnc guy)

Westerner,
    The actual mixing of the ingredients is not difficult. I was trying to copy some of the lubes from "Major Ned Roberts and the Schuetzen Rifle" I live in a very small town in Montana and it was a long way to anywhere in those pre-Internet days. Beeswax, paraffine, and beef tallow were easy to get (but not real effective in my rifles). The plumbago, sperm oil, japan wax, bayberry wax, Oildag, crude ozocerite wax, and the (not so common anymore) common cylinder oil, were tough to find....or even translate into modern English. That ended up being a lot of time and money that a young ranch hand/horse packer with a family just didn't have. Your situation may have been different than mine and afforded you more time/ money/ better location to assimilate the materials you needed to experiment. Heck, at the time, my only regular source for lead was scrounged wheel weights or lead roof sheeting so it was tough enough just to get the bullets !!. SPG lube worked for me every time, and it was a lot easier to obtain. It's still working for me. I like to experiment with different loads and components but this seems to be a consistent answer to the question of lube.
   I'm sure there are many lubes that can work the same as SPG. Maybe you have come up with something that works better for you and cost the same or less than a box of SPG. If you will send it to me (for free like Steve did   ) I would be thrilled to try it out....  .
    And I am pretty frugal still....(I have one of the first Forester Tap O Cap tools, that I still use.....it's getting tough to find caps in the red paper rolls though.... )
Tom W.  

Gentlemen,

If one is using a lubri-sizer, rather than buy sticks get the bulk blocks. Simply melt them in a double boiler and pour the hot lube into the sizer. It sets up in about 15 minutes and excludes all the trapped air one gets when mashing the sticks down the lubri-sizer barrel. It is also much cheaper than using the sticks.

Steve