By way of educating myself, I would be very grateful to get some information from shooters and gunsmiths about their preference in firearms lubricants.
What brand lubricant do you use?
I would also appreciate it if you would explain why you prefer that particular brand.
I thank you in advance for your replies, it will be very helpful to me.
I'm using frog lube too. It's not a good cleaner on a gun that you didn't treated with frog lube first.
When I get a gun that was not treated with frog lube before, I do first a full cleaning with a good regular gun cleaning solvent. Then I remove all trace of lube with rubbing alcohol. Then I do a frog lube application with heat.
After that, all the next cleanings are a breeze and I just use frog lube.
I've seen that frog lube is now selling a solvent that they recommend for this initial cleaning before applying the CLP.
Ballistol. Tried it b/c of Hickock 45 and have been using it ever since. Of course he is one of the reasons I am switching to Glocks as well which means my cleaning is way down vs. my 1911's.
For my Glock 19's any good firearms lube I can get. I can not see it matters much with Glocks. Some firearms require grease and oil so any good firearms lubes.
I do not think there is a whole lot of differences between most.
I've tried them all. High end, low end, and in-between. I've yet to find one that really works that much better than the rest. I don't go in much for combination cleaners/lubricants. I like them separate. I used Slipstream for a while. I liked it fine; but the cost wasn't worth any perceived advantages, to me. Same for the other wonder lubricants. Lately I have been using Valvoline Durablend grease for both rifles and pistols. For GLOCKs I use it on the recommended lube points. For rifles I put a small dab on any place that's shiny as well as the recommended points. It's just too simple to not have to worry about different lubricants. That, and a seven dollar one pound tub of grease will last me for the rest of my life, likely.
I am currently using Jig-A-Loo spray graphite - why? because I'm in a desert of dust and graphite lubricates really well without making the dust stick to it. I fired a lot of rounds through both rifle and piistol on my last tour, using the same, and never had a malfunction.
Nothing to do with Glock, that advice goes for all guns. However, older designs, like 1911's, need more lubricant. Glocks function well without it, so the only thing oil does is make dirt stick and even a Glock will fail if you get it dirty enough.
So I have read, but in real life I've never had a problem with it at all. Maybe it helps to clean it occasionally. It may heolp that all the aprts that get directly lubricated are steel so, at most, a little gets on the aluminum by contact.
Nothing to do with Glock, that advice goes for all guns. However, older designs, like 1911's, need more lubricant. Glocks function well without it, so the only thing oil does is make dirt stick and even a Glock will fail if you get it dirty enough.
It's snake oil. Same magical application routine as militec-1. Any quality gun oil works fine. Any quality gun oil will "stay put". You shouldn't be using enough for any area of the gun to look wet anyway.
Too much oil on anything is bad. But there are wet guns and dry guns. Wet guns, like 1911's and M4's, have a great deal of metal-on-metal contact. Between plain on friction and heat, these guns won't function reliably without ample lubrication. Dry guns, such as a glock, have minimal metal-on-metal contact, and tolerances that allow them to run with a minimum of lubrication. Over lubing a dry gun has no upside, but a downside of trapping dirt and other contaminants, which can slow or totally impede function. Most important of all- do not introduce any sort of lubricant into the firing pin channel. It doesn't take much sloppy cleaning to result in a slowed or non-functional firing pin. Lube in the FPC makes it a perfect trap for burnt powder or almost anything else.
Don't use lube, never have. Heavy on the Hoppes for ALL my guns! Flawless and Protected!
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