Eric
I'm amazed how much you defend wax also for firearms... but I would not call BALLISTOL oil just a liquid... then have you checked our friend (Hickok 45) what he thinks about BALLISOL OIL?
No really jokes apart I've been using mainly BALLISTOL but not only BALLISTOL for several decades now without any issue, surely is not the best of the best of gun oils, I'll post a video of another of my "gurus": Bill Wilson.
Have a nice week end Erik
Sergio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQNiAv998o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYEOB0glwM