Iced Glock

[SA Friday]

Cold weather can have some serious results with some pistols. Very tight fitting slide to frame guns with steel slides and receivers can be problematical in very cold weather. Get some water in the rails before it freezes or humitidy from one's body in the gun before it freezes can lock it up till you can thaw it out.

Most modern production firearms have enough slop in the moving parts to keep them reliable. The two biggest things you have to worry about in extreme cold weather is temp sensitive powders and the lube in the gun. Every lube starts to turn to a solid at some point when it gets cold. There are some non synthetic greases that will pretty much stop the slide in it's tracks at freezing. Even if the lube doesn't turn solid, it can thicken when cold enough to cause FTE's and possibly FTF's if there is lube in the firing pin/striker channel.

See a bit of this every Oct/Nov time at the pistol competitions around here. People forget to clean out the Slide Glide from their STI's, it get really cold for a match, and the gun just won't run. Clean out the Slide Glide and replace it with 10w-30 synthetic motor oil and they run again.

[SNAFU]

Like to see the glock put in a bucket of water then frozen.
THAT would be a torture test.
Most firearms freeze up from going from a warm area to cold.

[Irving]

How can I tell if what I'm using is synthetic or not? I think I just CLP and that 3 oil that comes in those walmart cleaning kits.

[SNAFU]

Mobil 1 a qt will last you some time.
I have a Powerstroke,use Rottella keep a little to fill a small bottle.
Works great.

[BigBear]

What does "CLP" stand for? We need an acronym dictionary.

[Marlin]

Cleaner, Lubricant, Protectant

[Irving]

Yes, this stuff. You'll see it referred to as CLP, or CLP BreakFree.

[BigBear]

hmmm thanks.

[trlcavscout]

There is a torture test on there somewhere of a Glock 22 (I think it was 22) where he buried it overnight in the mud, in a bucket of saltwater over night, all kinds of stuff and it still fired everytime and didnt jam.

[MichiganMilitia]

There is a torture test on there somewhere of a Glock 22 (I think it was 22) where he buried it overnight in the mud, in a bucket of saltwater over night, all kinds of stuff and it still fired everytime and didnt jam.

link?? We need some proof!