moose milk

[William Schoenfeld, 1386]

Can someone send me the mixture for moosemilk. It seems as if there are about 10 different mixtures on the Internet - what is the best one? Send it to mosby1862@cox.net.
Thanks
Dutch Schoenfeld
Mosby's Rangers

[DAVE FRANCE]

I've used a mixture of 1/3rd rubbing alcohol, 1/3 rd Murphy oil soap, and 1/3rd hydrogen peroxide for many years. It works very well, it is cheap but it isn't moose milk. (What do we call this - the unnamed mixture?) I used other things for years, but I never found anything better if you are only removing black powder residue. However, if you are only using patches to remove residue form a muzzle loading barrel, it will not get it all from the breach. Even though it only a few patches come out clean, there will be some residue at the breach that will start pitting. And I doubt if this mixture will remove lead.

If you use it in a Henry or another breach loader, the unnamed mixture will get the residue out of the barrel.

If you use a smokeless powder in cartridges for shooting outside the N-SSA, I would clean with Hoppes or something else made for smokeless powder after the unnamed mixture.

Good luck,

David

[Greg Ogdan, 11444]

Dutch,
1 part water soluble oil, 1 part Lestoil, 1 part hydrogen peroxide (optional), 1 part isopropol alcohol (optional), 8 parts water. The H2O2 promotes mixing and the alcohol lowers the freezing point. I forget whether you add the water to the oil or the other way around, but only one way works. Ask the guy you get the oil from. Hope this helps.

[Blair]

Here is the link to the original manufacturer of the product known as "Moose Milk".

http://winchestersutler.com/ShotLoad.html#CLN

Hope this helps,
Blair

[Walt Magee]

Winshield washer fluid works great and it dries in minutes and it's cheap! It stops corrosive action of BP and costs $3.99 a gallon.

[ken chrestman]

The 1/3rd part solution containing Hydrogen Peroxide will harm the oil finish on muskets. I switched to egual parts of Murphy Oil soap and Isoprol Alcohol, it works just fime, I also add a shot of Simple Green.

Ken Chrestman,7147V
FEC, Tennessee

[DAVE FRANCE]

Ken,

What is Simple?

David

[John Holland]

What Ken meant by using the green face is the product is simple green, a cleaning solution that is available just about anywhere.

I discovered the problem with the post....if you capitalize the word green the bb automatically inserts the green face emoticon. I guess the system is too automatically cute.

JDH

[William Schoenfeld, 1386]

Thank you and I will be making up some in the near future and let you know how it is.
Dutch Schoenfeld
Mosby's Rangers

[Scott Kurki, 12475]

Ballistol and water makes a moose milk also. Just add Ballistol to water until it stops mixing (Ballistol starts to sit on top), then add a little more water to get the little extra Ballistol mixed in. Some people add a little Joy dish washing liquid to this mix others add Murphy's Oil Soap, still others just use the Ballistol/water mix straight. This is also used in patched round ball muzzle loading as a patch lube and cleaner.

Anyway, moose milk is just a nick name for these mixtures that all turn whitish when the oil emulsifies with the water.