Iced Glock

[SA Friday]

Stewart, I don't understand the chemistry behind the various lubes available to do a good write up on this YET. I'm hoping in a couple of years to have been edjamukated enough in chemistry to do something like this.

What I do understand is how various lubes have acted/reacted in the various guns I've shot in various conditions. CLP just hasn't cut it for me. CLP started life as Break Free and being used to soak steel parts that had stuck together from corrosion. It penetrates steel very well. This equals being soaked up by steel like a sponge soaking up water, especially in warmer temps or in guns heated through lots of shooting. I had huge issues with this in the desert. If in doubt, I just use motor oil. The synthetics seem to not thicken when heated up from shooting and resist thickening in cold weather.

[BigBear]

uh oh... sounds like I may need a refresher on "proper" gun cleaning... I just use soapy water, clean water, brush, pads, some Hoppes #9, and "Remoil" or some other lube laying around... I hear talk about copper remover, CLP, etc and etc. Lots to learn apparently.

[Irving]

uh oh... sounds like I may need a refresher on "proper" gun cleaning... I just use soapy water, clean water, brush, pads, some Hoppes #9, and "Remoil" or some other lube laying around... I hear talk about copper remover, CLP, etc and etc. Lots to learn apparently.

I don't even so that much. I just spray parts with CLP, scrub with tooth brush, dab remoil on a piece of cotton to lube the rails and points where the barrel touches and call it good. Well, I wipe the CLP off the gun of course.

[Irving]

Stewart, I don't understand the chemistry behind the various lubes available to do a good write up on this YET. I'm hoping in a couple of years to have been edjamukated enough in chemistry to do something like this.

Unacceptable. You just make a list of what you like and why, and I'll go to the store like a good little sheep and try it. OR, I'll act like a Donkey and say, "That's too rich for my blood!" and not do anything.

[SA Friday]

Unacceptable. You just make a list of what you like and why, and I'll go to the store like a good little sheep and try it. OR, I'll act like a Donkey and say, "That's too rich for my blood!" and not do anything.

That's easy.

Hoppes #9 or Shooter's Choice to clean.

Summer time; competition pistols get liberal Slide Glide with Castrol 10w-30 synthetic in the trigger mechanisms. Get's colder; straight 10w-30 synthetic on everything.

AR's: 10w-30 synthetic
Bolt Guns: 10w-30 synthetic
Revolvers: 10w-30 synthetic
Shotguns: Hmmm, let me think... 10w-30 synthetic
If in doubt: motor oil. It's cheap, you get a quart for the price of a couple of oz's of "gun oil", and it works better than a lot of the 'special' gun oils. I've tried motor oil in every gun I can think of, and even belt fed maching guns fricken love the stuff.

If you want to get super fancy, go to Michaels and get needle bottle for a couple of bucks, or order a few from Brownells.

The only other thing I've tried and liked is the FP-10 grease that comes in the white syringe. My Glocks love it all year round, and seems to work well even in the cold in loose fitting guns. If I'm in doubt it might work, I go to, guess what.

[BigBear]

AR's: 10w-30 synthetic
Bolt Guns: 10w-30 synthetic
Revolvers: 10w-30 synthetic
Shotguns: Hmmm, let me think... 10w-30 synthetic

If I'm in doubt it might work, I go to, guess what.

Ummm.... *thinking really, REALLY hard*... ummm.... 10w-30?!?!

[Irving]

That's great! Thanks for the tip. I really need to learn how to take the trigger assembly out of my M&P and CZ 75. I've taken the CZ completely down to frame except for the trigger, I should work on that. Thanks again.

[Graves]

Same here...kind of. Hoppes #9 and Mobile 1 10/30