Change in color / odor of Oxyoke & TC patches

[roundball]

There's something different about the lube being used in patches under the Oxyoke and TC label during the past year…it may be since being bought out by that other ML company, they’ve made the change, and I assume they also continue to make patches for TC’s label.

I bought a couple bags of Oxyoke precut/prelubed pillow ticking patches for my .62cal, and half dozen bags of TC’s .54cal.
They are identical to previous patches in every respect except that they don’t have the orange NL1000 color and they don’t have the wintergreen smell…it’s not an unpleasant smell and the odor that comes to mind is the same as I recall a can of boot dressing smelled that was called SnoSeal I think...a soft white paste.

The .62cal bags are labeled "Oxyoke Originals, Wonder Ticking 1000 Plus", just like their previous bags… and there’s no difference between TC’s labels either…just the color and smell...and they all "feel" and shoot exactly the same way.

(Note: in the photo to show the original NL1000 color of .62cal Oxyoke patches I actually displayed a bag sold under the name "Muzzleloader Originals, same thing)

[roundball]

I just rummaged around in the garage and found what I was remembering...it was a tub of "Mink Oil"...(not SnoSeal)...and it is precisely the same smell, soft white paste...the lube in the white colored patches appears to be Mink Oil !!

[BILLY D.]

I bought a large supply a few years ago. Haven't used 'em all yet. It was my understanding T/C used bore butter for their pre-lubes.

I just bought some more bore butter and it smells the same. That stuff smells almost as good as Hoppes #9.

Best wishes, Bill

[roundball]

They're all made by Oxyoke...Oxyoke uses the marketing name Wonder Lube 1000 for their own, and under contract allows TC to market it under TC's label called Natural Lube 1000...(both are generically referred to as bore butter).

So times they are a changing...apparently the yellow color and wintergreen smell has been dropped...that tells me that it's always been mink oil but you just couldn't smell it because it was disguised with a Wintergreen or Pine scent.

[BILLY D.]

shucks roundball, another dream shattered. sniff, sniff.

I'm gonna EMAIL T/C and raise heck.

Bill