A bit of advise is needed if you please.  This weekend I cast my first bullets and loaded up my first 22 rounds of 38-55.  Not having any lube I am thinking of greasing the barrel between shots.  Something like: run a bore mop down the bore with grease stopping before the chamber, running a patch from breach to muzzle, fire a round and repeat.  This is just to get me shooting and yes, in the future I  plan on lubing the bullets.  Thanks, David 

Dave, there is always a lot of opinions on different Lube formulae. But it can be very basic and still work. I for many years used a Lube that was 50/50 Bee's Wax and Yellow Petrolatum (Yellow Vaseline) You can find the Vaseline in a Drug Store in the Baby section. It worked very well for me.
It is stiff enough to be used with Pan Lubing. Or if it's too stiff you just soften it up by adding a little more Vaseline. Not too much, start slow. HTH Regards, FITZ. OLD TUCK.

I always grease my barrel interior after cleaning to keep the first round from leading a dry barrel, so far no problems and no leading. I once tried patching between rounds with a patch lightly soaked in automatic transmission fuild, again no problems but the rifle was not very accurate as such, that being my quest. Good luck whatever method you try.

NAH! Joe re read his last post. He is going to find a way to apply the lube to the Bullet on our advice. FITZ, OLD TUCK

Its easy enough to make up a perfectly adequate lube out of cheap and easy materials to find look at the lube formulas at the top of the page. pan lube them up and your ready to go.
I do when starting a new barrel rub lube into a patch and run it through the bore a few times to get it started but don't get carried away.

40 Rod

My lube is mainly 50% bees wax, with 40%Crisco and 10% Vaseline by volume, not weight. I can put a bit more Crisco in it and make it sift enough to spread with my finger, or a bit less if temperatures are very warm and I want it firmer.
It can easily be used to lube bullets by hand before seating them, and should make I a lot less likely to lead up the bore too.
Even just putting Crisco in the lube grooves will lube the bore better than wiping it with grease before each shot.

Am presuming that OP's use of word "grease" is at least as vague a word as "lube". Probably lotsa overlap between "grease" and "lube".

Watching fellow BPCR shooters wipe their bores with a "dirty" piece of "rag", aka "patch", routinely left me a bit "queasy" about doing that to bore of my rifle -- kinda like mopping kitchen floor with a dirty, greasy mop. Never took part in any 1000 yd shooting with BP rifles, so remain free of any bias.

Cleaning and "oiling" bore, as cited by OLD TUCK sounds SO rational. In any case, who are we to question a national Irish Sharpshooter re "oiling" bore of his 1000 yard target rifle? I was always taught to "oil" bores of my hunting rifles after I had cleaned them. Sounds "just right" to me. What did Mr. A. L. Beach do to his rifle when it was again his turn to shoot? Maybe Mr. Davis is actually, perhaps incidentally and with less planning, following in Mr. Beach's footsteps.

For what it's worth, I dissolved some bullet lube in xylene to use to put a thin layer of lube in the bore before firing the first shot. I used a pepper sauce bottle and had to put the mixture in hot water to get the lube to dissolve. Since then it has stayed in solution.

JS