That's strange, Dennis - I started using it when OxYoke was producing it, with less Tall Oil in the mix. I wrote it up here as the most slippery lube I'd used. Shortly after that,the original formula became available and to tell you the truth, I didn't notice any real difference - it was still great shot beautifully - very slippery and very easy loading and required the same loads as the Oxyoke-made LHV in the .40 and .45 to give best accuracy.
Maybe your's is a bad batch of the OxYoke stuff. Mine was geat (from Track).
Taylor's test showed some rust around the patched ball, but not in the barrel anywhere else, in his week-long loaded test. He repeated the same test with Hoppe's #9 Plus (old bottle with dark brownish fluid) which gave no such rust anywhere, nor did either hurt the powder charge beneath the patched ball. We do no skimp on lube - the patches were wet when initially loaded. I assume as the patched ball is pushed down the bore, lube is drawn up the patch to the ball/bore junction through capilary, or some other action and does not remain as a runny liquid on the base of the ball to wet the powder.
