Pistol lubrification - Oil vs Grease

Pistol lubrification - Oil vs Grease

  • Oil

    Votes: 57 42.2%

  • Grease

    Votes: 19 14.1%

  • Both

    Votes: 53 39.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 4.4%
  • Total voters
    135
Thin grease for slide rail, oil for others, use something with telfon. The super lub made very good grease, they are thin but great. Bike chain lub with telfon are what I am using right now.

Trigun
 
im interested in this, ive been using hoppes 9, wanna be sure thats ok for slide lube in the long term.
 
Anything, as long as it works. I use synthetic engine oil.

There are two purposes for lubrication of a firearm

1) Wear
2) Function

Lubrication for wear in a firearm is not that critical. Just about anything will work. The high forces in an action are taken up by stationary parts, not ones that are sliding. Lubrication doesn't really help the stationary parts, and they also tend not to wear. As an example, consider 100,000 cycles, which is a fair bit of use.

Then look at an engine, 100,000 cycles is less than one hour of driving on the highway. And yes, those cylinders do slide up and down, metal on metal with just a thin oil coating between them.

Now for operation, that is a different matter. You need something that will keep the parts sliding past each other, keep the dirt out, and not stiffen up when it gets cold. An oil will tend to move debris out of the way, where grease will tend to keep it in place.
 
Shooters Choice all weather grease does the trick for me, especially on heavy friction bearing surfaces or when there is alot of heat involved. Other than that I use KG-4 and it has worked quite well on all of my guns.
 
I use Gun Butter. I oil the slide and grease the slide stop bolt and the contacts with the barrel.. Makes my Tanfoglio Limited Custom in .40 S&W run like a top.... This stuff stays where you put it.. Just love it.. If you want some just google it..

RDG
 
It all depends on what time of year and wear you are. I know when I am in Kelowna in the middle of summer oil will cook right off in seconds but if I am on burke mountain durning the winter time grease will just give cycling issues. I tried white lythium grease but that stuff gets every were & when it mixes with the un-burnt powder it leaves shiny parts were the metal rubs.
 
I recently purchased two, top tier firearms..A SIG X-5 Tactical, and a Nighthawk TalonII.
Both recommend grease (sparingly) on the slide rails, and oil on the pivot points.
Nighhawk actually recommends grease (synthetic) on the locking lugs and recesses on the barrel.
The SIG came with a tube of synthetic grease that appeared similar to Militec.
 
Both. Lubriplate No. 105 grease on the rails, light coat of oil (Hoppe's Elite) on exterior and/or teflon dry lube everywhere else. I also use synthetic ATF from time to time....
 
Oil on the trigger mechanism and synthetic automotive grease (Mobil 1) elsewhere. Not only does grease protect from wear and tear much better than oil, it makes the gun easier to clean, as carbon deposits stick to the grease rather than the surface of the gun.
 
I use Slide Glide Lite on my Sig's Rail, Slide Glide Standard on my glock rails. (The rail is so much longer on the SIG, Slide glide Standard just gum up the pistol and prevent proper operation).

I use Breakfree CLP on every moving part and to coat the pistol interior, makes cleaning so much easier. Breakfree also goes on metal to metal friction parts (trigger bar, barrel, guide rod/spring).

I recently tried Burke's gun oil, it is also a CLP, I'll see if it stays as long in my pistol. It oddfully smells good lol. Like it so far..
 
Cheap Moly grease on slides, Ballistol everywhere else: spray then spread/blow out excess with compressor. Right after shooting: Ballistol inside the BBL & on feed ramp, makes cleaning easier.
 
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