Grease

[Bovice]

I cleaned an AR for my dad once that he had lubed with bearing grease. After all that work, I told him no more bearing grease.

Every AR I have run has done it's absolute best with a wet coat of oil. Hoppe's oil in the orange spray can, specifically. Grease makes a downright awful mess in an AR.

Pistols are another story. I use a light, gun specific grease. It's easy to clean off when the time comes. With bearing grease, you have to bring out a heavy duty degreaser.

 

[RinkRat]

I tried it and now I'm starting to use LocTite's C5-A copper-based anti-seize lubricant for my grease applications.

I've found that ... a little dab will do ya

 

[Girodin]

If you oil a gun, you can expect to have to relube it more frequently as the lubricant is easily displaced. This is not a problem (and may indeed be desireable) in a regularly used range gun but will almost certainly be a problem in a carry gun that sits a long time and is expected to still perform at a moment's notice.

In my opinion that argument is much ado about nothing. First, if your carry gun is just sitting that long, your lack of training is more likely to be an issue. Second, it is pretty easy to re-apply lubricant. Third, and the real reason I find the above argument unpersuasive, I wouldn't carry a gun that couldn't fire more rounds than I carry on my person, while being bone dry. See for example:

http://10-8performance.blogspot.com/2010/05/project-c-phase-2-lubricant-free.html

 

[One_Jackal]

Grease works best on the face of a hammer or the head of a firing pin. Things that would sling oil off them in a couple of shots.

 

[steepcliff]

I like grease on the slides and oil on the feeding ramp and barrrel

 

[steepcliff]

40 cal. subcompact beretta

The manual stated use cip or saami standard ammo. I did and what a nightmare. I have heard people say, maybe that gun doesn't like that ammo.
After 6hrs. of polishing and 800 rounds, the gun will take any kind of ammo.
ShoulId we be satisfied with that conclusion about, "the gun may not like that ammo". If they would have told you that from the start, would you really want that gun? I have used about hundred dollars worth of different kinds of grease and oil , but first i needed to address the feeding issue.

 

[coolluke01]

Anyone ever use Gun Butter? I've heard good things but never tired it. I just use WWII issue oil on my Glock's and AR.

 

[Girodin]

You can also find countless videos of police shootouts where they empty their G22s, which hold a fair number of rounds, and don't hit squat. I wouldn't use the average cops shooting skills as an argument that 50 rounds a year is adequate. Here is one such example. Cop with gun already out misses his first four shots at a stationary target, who hasn't fired and doesn't return fire, at very shot distance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7AOVqnL9xM

Cops tend to be like other people, the ones that are solid shooters are such because they have put the time and effort into training.

The copy analogy falls apart if you look at it a little harder. Cops may or may not go into more dangerous situations than a particular private citizen. However, they also wear body armor, have radios, can call for backup, and face different types of threats than a private citizen.

 

[frankmako]

i use grease and/or oil on all my guns.

 

[PTMCCAIN]

I use TW25 on all my firearms...works great, stays in place. 'nuff said.

 

[hentown]

Since I use Mobil 1, exclusively, for lubing my firearms, I'm obviously not opposed to using vehicle lubes on my firearms; however, using wheel bearing grease on slide parts of a firearm isn't exactly a stellar idea.

FWIW, modern wheel bear greases don't have fiber in them. Still don't want them around to gum up my firearms. Fibrous wheel bearing grease was used primarily back in the days of ball bearings.

 

[PabloJ]

I still use 1oz jar of Pro-Gold grease I bought at Gaylons years ago. I have not found anything superior to it yet.

 

[Slamfire]

Greases are simply oils in a thickner. The oil does the lubrication. Greases stick to a surface better than oils and if you notice are are used in applications that don't use pressure fed lubrication.

Oils and greases will damage plastics but I don't know how long or how much exposure it requires to hurt a polymer pistol. Maybe there are additional coatings on the outside of the plastic to keep oil from touching the plastic.

Just lube it. Grease or oil, just lube it.

 

[EddieNFL]

I believe this guy over any internet hype!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIsKEHo-4g

My internet expert is better than your's.

 

[kokapelli]

Oils and greases will damage plastics but I don't know how long or how much exposure it requires to hurt a polymer pistol. Maybe there are additional coatings on the outside of the plastic to keep oil from touching the plastic.

If that's the case they better stop packaging it in plastic containers.

 

[ku4hx]

Grease works best on the face of a hammer or the head of a firing pin. Things that would sling oil off them in a couple of shots.

I think it's wise to keep all the various gunks away from the firing pin no matter the gun. Unless specifically directed by the maker. Many a firing pin has been halted because of over zealous greasing and lubrication.

 

[RSVP2RIP]

I used Militec-1 grease on my 1911 rails, barrel lugs and underside of the slide. Tried it on a Dan Wesson Valor an it retarded the slide so much it would FTF from slide stop. I was using an artist brush to put as thin a layer as possible on it. That gun just gets Militec-1 oil sparingly with grease on the slide where it contacts and rides the hammer (forgot what that area is called). The Colts get greased.

 

[Girodin]

Looks like shots 5,6,7,8 put the subject down.

Do you think that was an example of good shooting, heck even competent, shooting?

The only reason he got to #5 was that the gentleman was committing suicide by cop. Had the deceased actually been intending to shoot the cop, then the officer very likely would have been dead, and it would have been a result of missing 4 shots at very close range against a completely static target. Furthermore, like I said earlier, this is one of MANY examples. It just happened to be the first police shooting video I clicked after taking 5 seconds to find one.

The fact is if you are shooting 50 rounds a year you are not going to be a very good shooter. This is particularly true if you are not doing any other kind of training that doesn't involve live fire. If you disagree I'd invite you to go participate in any kind of objectively measured shooting competition where there are folks that shoot regularly. See how your 50 rounds a year guys stack up.

 

[Girodin]

So was that a yes or a no as to whether that was good shooting?

If you really want a great no lawsuit weapon just pick up a can of Raid Wasp and Hornet killer.

This digresses even more, but I promise you could get sued for using Raid as a weapon. I say that as someone who has a legal education.

I'm sure you'll have something else to say and we'll leave it at that since this has drifted far off topic at this point.

 

[svtruth]

Just Another $.02

The P-51s in WWII (and probably all the other planes) had gun warmers to keep the grease from getting too thick.
BTW, 115fmj, what kind of groups do you get with the Raid?
Also BTW who was the (non Highroad term redacted) who took the cents sign off lap tops?

 

[Body Mass]

I use Lubriplate 105 grease on my slides and Rem Oil on the parts that rotate... This goes for all of my pistols. My 1911 runs best wet and my polys run best on the dry side.