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Subject:
Secret Ingredients
From:
Carolyn Smith-Kizer <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:11:59 +0700
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Early riflemen used a mixture of tallow & lard, or bear grease or
whale oil to lube their patches.  Other "secret" ingredients were
added such as:  besswax or lanolin or?
 
What ingredients would have been available to late 18th or early 19th
Century hunters that would have chelated iron gun barrels?

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