I'm with driftwood. I started shooting C&B 15 years ago, read around and did the crisco. After shooting on an 80 degree day, not remotely the warmest day I had planned on shooting, I had ruined a shirt and pants with the nasty melted stuff. Switched to the wads. I have only experienced 1 chain fire, and seen two others.(both of them the same guy, the same day.) Mine I am 100% convinced was caused by a poor fitting cap. As I fired, I noted the next cylinder did not have a cap on it. Boom, then boom boom. Three cylinders went, only one down the pipe. I had severe chunk of lead on the wedge. The gun survived, as did I. The other two, well it was a new shooter who knew it all. At this point, I wasn't young enough to know it all, so I tried to help. He had a brass frame colt clone, filled the cylinders with powder, rammed a ball down on top (I am estimating about 40 grains of BP compressed). Several times he had jams as the balls would not seat enough to rotate the cylinder. He experienced two chain fires that day, not sure if it was caps, poorly seated balls or what. Anyway, he didn't have room for wads or crisco. After two shoots and some practices inbetween, he ruined the gun. Missouri gets too hot in the summer to use crisco effectively. I know guys swear by it, but they use a 50/50 with bee's wax. that keeps it solid enough. I actually ordered the wrong thing a few months ago and have these little wax plugs of lube. I use them like the wads, directly over the powder (I am shooting right off, so no long term storage that way). work great. I will say I loaded a cylinder in March, 25 grains BP, a wad and a 454 ball for my colt army. Let the 5 chambers sit, capped for the entire summer. A real humid day in august, they all went boom and in the general vacinity I wanted them to. It was me shooting, so well accuracy is subjective at that point. The Jayhawkers got the picture and retreated back to Lawrence.