My current summer (Florida) recipe is 6 parts Mutton Tallow, 1 part Beeswax and 3 parts Olive Oil. The other wax was dropped as it made the lube too stiff in my opinion.
While experimenting, with just 2 parts Olive Oil melted lube was poured over a charged cylinder's balls and kept for several months in the spring and early summer. When that gun was finally fired, the other chambers held their lube until firing.
This 6-1-3 recipe has currently covered another cylinder for several months now, being left in the car and summer heat with no problem. It also has been used to lube over the balls at the range with a plastic knife and while not as stiff as the 6-1-2 recipe, is much easier to work with.
This same recipe when melted has been poured over wool felt and wads punched from it when dry. Works fine but if I were to use them in a cylinder charged for a long time or in paper cartridges, I'd reduce the Olive Oil for a dryer/harder mix. It would be 6-1-2 or 6-1-1.
I made another batch to replace bore butter but it's still a work in progress as its too thick, needs more olive oil. That recipe was 1 part Mutton Tallow, 1 part Beeswax and 5 parts Olive Oil. It cleaned the guns just fine, lubricated the triggers and hammers fine but was too thick on the cylinder pins and arbors. I'm thinking of doubling the Olive Oil content. Other projects have put that on the back burner for now.
