If it does not work you will have an udder failure!

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Well, I am udderly one of the people who uses udder hand cream on the front of the bullet.  I use it in my .577 Snider. I load 60 grains of 2F with a .600 round ball. The ball sits about a quarter inch below the case mouth. I fill the the remaining space above the ball with udder hand cream.  Works well.

I use it in my .577 Snider. I load 60 grains of 2F with a .600 round ball. The ball sits about a quarter inch below the case mouth. I fill the the remaining space above the ball with udder hand cream.

Though the guns were muzzle-loaders, the bloody and pivotal 1857 mutiny of Indian soldiers is generally agreed to have been sparked by a new cartridge for their service rifles.  The paper containing the powder and bullet became rumored to be lubricated externally with pig (unclean) and cow (sacred) fat.  You were supposed to bite into those cartridges as part of loading them, which many of the largely native soldiers refused to do, citing their religious beliefs.  That the rumor was false in the end made calling the misunderstanding “tragic” completely inadequate.

So let’s move forward 10-12 years or so, and let’s suppose Britain’s reconfigured Indian Army was issued Snider cartridges with the slug lubricated in some way with udder cream.  I can too easily imagine “udder cream” being rumored into “cow fat”, creating a cartridge that would’ve been considered offensive by both shooters and those being shot at, and that a second massive “tragedy” might have ensued.

In short, empires can indeed rock if not crumble over what retrospectively seems no more important than the poetic “loss of a nail”.

Bill Lawrence
(who sometimes fancies himself "Mr. Peabody")

The stuff is a grease and water emulsion, not like Bag Balm. 

I might not get many technical answers beyond someone else who probably also heard about it on the Brit forum for Snider use, but nonetheless I'm enjoying all the other answers plenty

desert-dude wrote on Aug 9^th, 2022 at 11:20am:


I gave it a try and it seemed to do just that. bore did not accumulate maningful levels of powder fouling over a dozen rounds and not a big mess to clean up either. Definitely merits further experiments.