Mike, the only match that I know of that will not allow Teflon is the newly formed Table match "hunter class" at Friendship.

If you want an alternative to Teflon try "Dutch Shulttz System".  Search it on the Web.

Basically a ratio, generally 6/1, of water soluable oil and water. Use it like you described.

You need to experiment as usual but I have had good sucess with it.

Mike

 

I am along with Spiderman. I have been the range officer down to York for several years now and one of the range officers at friendship. I don't know of any place were Teflon is not allowed, in a chunk. So other than that find any magic formula you like that will make the ball slide down the barrel. I have used spit patch, Teflon, straight simple green. Also you might try MR flintlocks. Have fun and stay safe.

I use the green teflon patching and use a small amount of water and liquid dish detergent. Just enough to get it to load a little easy. I haven't noticed much difference in the way it shoots.

Barry Smith

I like Ballistol.   I mix one part oil to 5 parts water, soak the patch cloth ( like a few days before ) then let it air dry.  Repeat once to get even coverage.  Use a strong canvas patching material.  ---
I think the Teflon works good because the maker uses a really tough grade of canvas.  If the patch tears at the muzzle, all is lost.  ------
I wipe the bore between shots with  two damp patches, with the same dilution Ballistol mix.  If you can wring water out, it is too wet. . . .Even though this is a "dry" patch it slides down fine, as long as you don't wait tooo long after wiping.

I had heard of all those recipes that DAG mentioned at one time or another. That really doesn't surprise me. We kind a know a lot of the same people. I don't know if there's any truth to it, but I was told somewhere along the line that those mixtures should be kept in a dark bottle such as brown glass or something like that, if I remember right there was something about sunlight breaking down one of the components I have seen people use all of them, and they all swore that they worked very well.

Now there is another recipe. It's been a deep dark secret for many years. You take the one part fat of a bore hog killed under the full moon two parts oil from the flax plant.( A.k.a. linseed oil) melt them together. And one part of an aged straight Kentucky bourbon, being careful not to let the mixture boil.Dip you're patching material in them lay them flat on the stump of a willow tree that was cut down under a new moon, use the juice of the blueberry to paint your face, blue from ear to ear carrying Hickory stick pointed towards the sky shaking the Hickory stick, making three trips clockwise and two trips counterclockwise around the stump. Should you decide to use this recipe would you please have someone videotape it. And be careful when dipping the strips of patching in the hot mixture. I would use tongs it might hurt.