Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Muzzleloaders What lube did T/C use before Natural Lube 1000 Plus Bore Butter?

Digging around some old ML stuff, I came across several unopened boxes of prelubed T/C MaxiBalls and T/C MaxiHunter conicals. The lube is a translucent brown gel that have a greasy feel. The writing on the boxes only described that the bullets are prelubed but not what the bullets are lubed with. I also have old boxes of T/C conicals that say the conicals are lubed with Natural Lube 1000 Plus Bore Butter and the lube on those bullets don't turn to brown greasy gel. The lube just drys up, remains a yellow color, becomes brittle and flakes off the bullets.

Any long time T/C guys remember?

sounds like the old hodgdon spit patch lube. Its watery/gel brown and oily feel. I read that it was water and beeswax.

Didn’t the old original T/C lube come in a small plastic jar with screw on lid similar to what RIG grease came in?

Dang it’s been a while.

I think it was simply called Bore Butter. Smelled like gumdrops. Yours may have simply changed color with age. I know it can dry out and crack.

The stuff Hornady used to put on Great Plains bullets gets powdery.

I think you’re right Pappy.

Yep! I still have a jar of it left over from . . . Dang! I'm getting old. 1984(?)

I have been using these front stuffers since about 76 or so.I lubed all my own.The first was a plastic jar you put in a microwave, got it almost liquid and then place the maxi balls in it.Using a cookie cutter type tube, you cut then out.Some of that lube turned brownish. Some I lubed out of the tube. It was called Bore Butter.The tube I have now I the 1000 stuff.

The first lube I ever used was some brown sticky stuff that was like axel grease. I think it was a T/C product but I don’t remember what it was called. I remember it was messy as all heck.

I well remember the Maxi-Lub. Might still have a jar somewhere. Looked like baby poop. I also used it to seal the chambers on my 1858 Remington New Army.

That jar is from 1982. I got it in an accessory kit that came with my Renegade. The package with rifle and accessories was cheaper than a rifle. I bought it at midsouth shooters supply I think. Maxi lube has to be the worst lube ever sold.