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Just as the title says, boys.

I know the M14/M1 geeks do it and because the cool kids do it I suppose I will too...and the AR15 guys are all running their blasters 'wet'. But last week I met a gent at the rod n' gun club and he was running a greased 1911! I've never seen anyone grease a pistol before. What is the consensus of the foolish firearm forum folk on this? I distinctly remember the masters of my youth to run 'civilian' automatics sparingly with lube. And, I dunno about you but I burn powders in my .45 that are so filthy, they will foul YOUR pistol too if ya happen to be shooting next to me. For what it's worth his just shucked and chucked brass just as happy as a clam and I'm kinda sorta thinking about grease for my pistols too.

For you fellas that do it - do you have any preferences for brands, etc?
 
I use grease in the summer, oil in the winter. Just a little bit on the slidey parts. Any grease will do, just use it sparingly.
 
I don't run a 1911, but my experience is......it is very hard to argue with results. Gun owners are a very diverse group, everyone has their own ways that work for them, and they are not afraid to claim 'theirs' is the best way and everyone else is just plain 'wrong'. I shoot CAS with Holy Black, I have found many things over the years that work very well for me; are they the same as other CAS BP shooters? No. Do we argue about them around the campfire? Of course! But then, that's all part of the fun.
 
Grease for sliding contact, oil for rotating contact. I use grease on all my semi-auto pistols where the slide rides on the frame. The key is to use it sparingly, you only need very small dabs to provide enough lube.


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I use a small syringe to place the tiniest amount of grease on metal to metal parts for center fire semi auto. Place, wipe, cycle for function, shoot. Started with TW25B until the tiny tube ran out. Then I realized that I liked my semi auto firearms to smell like machinery anyway and have been using good old regular greasy grease from the shop. Squirted it out into the syringe and it sits on the bench. I am not convinced that oil is better for hot, tight tolerance, high cyclic rate and high pressure applications over a large (and rapidly changing) temperature range.

Don't over grease. A gob of grease left over doesn't help anything except get stains on your pants. Like all lubricants, a light film only!

Rimfire semi auto and all bolt/lever/pump/single action guns get whatever lube is handy. CLP is on the bench today.

Oh, and CHEAP too! Syringe from peavy mart = $1, grease next to free. Will last years.
 
I use grease especially on older all stainless steel pistols like this AMT Backup where galling was an issue.

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I grease the snot out of it

Rails, locking lugs, barrels where the bushing contacts, places where metal slams metal...
 
mmattockx said:
Grease for sliding contact, oil for rotating contact. I use grease on all my semi-auto pistols where the slide rides on the frame. The key is to use it sparingly, you only need very small dabs to provide enough lube.


Mark
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The same here Gun butter on the slides and hoppes oil or Balistol to do the rest
 
White litium grease on pistols and rifles. Grease does not run, bleed nor splash you back. In the winter I use a very thin film and works just fine.
 
Grease is just oil with a thickening soap.

So as long as the sticky, thickening effects of the soap are a net benefit, you're better off with grease.

But once they become a net detriment, you're better off with oil.

Where you might see this would be in extremes of cold, for example. Or, in a more mundane example, when cleaning your guns.

Sometimes the stickiness is really nice, because it keeps the lube in the general area you want it. Keep in mind, of course, that when it's hot and under pressure, it's not going to leave a big thick layer between surfaces. But still, the stickiness might keep more of it flowing around the region.

But then if you want to do a quick and dirty lube job, oil that will flow through a gun can be much more useful.

You mostly see 1911s getting greased but I don't think that there's anything about the design that makes it respond better to grease than oil. It's just a matter of the properties of which you want to take advantage.
 
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