Is it just me, or does Ballistol just plain stink?

[wurger]

So I picked up a CZ Evo Scorpion Carbine. The manual recommends using Ballistol, so I tracked some down and used it.

That "feces" just plain stinks. I opened my safe a couple of days later and it reeked. I had to re-clean the gun with other cleaners to get that rank stank out of my safe.

Just me, or does anyone else not like the smell of that stuff?

First world problem, I know, but...

[John Henry]

Actually, I use it all the time and I rather like the smell. To each his own.

[6079Winston]

I have a few friends that like the smell but one, curiously a German, can't stand it. The aversion, while somewhat rare, appears to cause near homicidal rage.

[wurger]

I have a few friends that like the smell but one, curiously a German, can't stand it. The aversion, while somewhat rare, appears to cause near homicidal rage.

Didn't cause homicidal rage, but I really, really, really, really, don't like cleaning guns. The stank of the Ballistol drove me to re-clean a clean gun. That has NEVER happened before.

I'm about 30% German. Might be something there.

[Eureka1911]

Actually, I use it all the time and I rather like the smell. To each his own.

Me too. Like they say, YMMV

[jtv3062]

So I picked up a CZ Evo Scorpion Carbine. The manual recommends using Ballistol, so I tracked some down and used it.

That "feces" just plain stinks. I opened my safe a couple of days later and it reeked. I had to re-clean the gun with other cleaners to get that rank stank out of my safe.

Just me, or does anyone else not like the smell of that stuff?

First world problem, I know, but...

It's you.

[baranski]

I like the smell (anise like), my wife says it smells like sheet.

[NIKSD]

I use it all the time, the smell doesn’t bother me.

[tbc]

It is stink but my nose got use to it.

[200Apples]

I like the smell (anise like), my wife says it smells like sheet.

You're both right. It smells like anis.

But, seriously...


One reason the scent of Ballistol might chafe some folks' olfactory experience is that it was all made during WWI. Some of the claimed "natural" ingredients have turned rancid in the ensuing years...

I jest. Kinda.

[maggie06]

Only thing I use, good for just about everything, leather, metal, wood. Why complicate life?

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[Tarmy]

I can tell when the ole shotty needs to be lubed by the lack of the aroma of the Ballistol stink...er...odor...er...sweet smell. Actually, I sorta like it.

[81turbota]

It's smells like a geriatric men's room at a gym, but it works really well.

It stinks but I have 3 cans of it ready to use.

[559BearDown]

I've always thought it smells like dirty socks but I won't use anything else.

[Svashtar]