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BamBam wrote:

Andy RV wrote:This is the cheapest place I’ve found;

https://www.alpinetrek.co.uk

I just signed up to their news letter and got a £5 off voucher.

if you can spend £40

for 2 cans, amazon prime is cheaper

Ballistol is good stuff but the smell always makes me feel sick!

snayperskaya wrote:Ballistol is good stuff but the smell always makes me feel sick!

It reminds me of basic training, the cleaning kit for our service rifles often came with an oil bottle full of Balistol. Little did we know, you needed to buy your own gun oil if you wanted decent oil.
Pretty sure the stuff they gave us was used engine oil.

Also, there was a myth about Balsitol curing diarrhoea.

Young's 303 is every bit as good if not superior to ballistol with exactly the same properties both real and mythical. Importantly it smells the business having that proper "gun room" aroma that continues where Hoppes No9 left off. Unlike balistol's blocked drain/putrefying sheep pong.

Young's 303 is my aqueous gun oil of choice for both black powder and smokeless firearms as well as leather and woodwork.

That's interesting? When you say the Youngs is ok for the woodwork and leather, do you use it neat or diluted.

As much as I like the smell of Youngs, perhaps its just evocative of gun rooms and shooting, there is absolutely no way that I would use it on woodwork or leather.

An old friend of mine who lectured in engineering at a local college actually looked into the make up of Youngs some years ago and claimed that it was no different to emulsifying oils used in turning and drilling. In industry it's not unusual for fairly mundane products to be re-packaged into smaller containers and sold as specialist fluids. Years ago we used to use Cengar oil a so called specialist oil for lubricating air powered saws. The small cans were quite costly and the warning was always given by Cengar never to use anything else. Research by our technical department discovered that Cengar oil was nothing more than three in one oil with a green dye added.

Woodworm wrote:That's interesting? When you say the Youngs is ok for the woodwork and leather, do you use it neat or diluted.

I use it neat, for slings and the like I have a tin full of the stuff into which I drop the rolled up sling over night, take it out and hang it up over the tin to drip and dry.

Again I rub down the woodwork with it at cleaning, I have been doing this for decades with no bad, only good effects on my guns.

I have no knowledge of the chemistry and agree that most if not all of our gun products are expensively repackaged existing products with no magical properties.

However my experience with Youngs 303 on firearms over an extended period has been nothing but positive with no noticeable detrimental effects at all.

As always there is the theory, and then the practice.

I shall continue to use it with gay abandon on my firearms, secure in the knowledge that it is doing exactly what I need from it.

Cut 50/50 with Irn Bru (old style) it makes a refreshing restorative after a hard days shooting.

snayperskaya wrote:Ballistol is good stuff but the smell always makes me feel sick!

Strange, I like the smell of Ballistol..!!

I also find FrogLube is quite aromatic...

Daryll wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:Ballistol is good stuff but the smell always makes me feel sick!

Strange, I like the smell of Ballistol..!!

Very strange indeed!