Remington 7400 run with very little or no oil?

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I've been reading that with the Remington 7400 as with the 740 and 742, it is better to run them with very little or no oil. Using dry lube instead.

Is this correct?
 
Light touch with light oil..rails and locking bolt is all I ever did after cleaning up a few for friends, and a few friends of friends. Once I got the Mobil 10W30 out of them... Ed's red, G96 and ClenZoil are my choices
 
My first firearm bought with my own money was a model 4 I believe they called it. Shot a moose in -25 with it and quite a few deer never missed a beat, lite rub and wiped off.
 
Run with very, very light amount of ultra thin oil in winter: if it doesn't flow ***VERY*** easily when the gun is cold in your hunting situation (ex: at -30*C sitting in the blind) then it is too thick. In my personal experience they become a problem only when the oil is too thick: it has to be able to move very freely out of the way of all machined parts, and not create a hydraulic lock or push parts out of alignment.

These modern guns are not old battle rifles that can run half full of mud, corroded ammo, axle grease and fingernails (removed by Garand thumb). I had a Tikka rifle that due to tight machining using anything other than the most viscous oil, oil runny as water at -35*C, it would hydraulic lock in the bolt and have FTF and half second delayed fires.
 
Using Rem Oil for cleaning the trigger group only. Rem Oil can be applied lightly on surfaces for rust protection. After several shots gotta clean the chamber using a chamber brush & solvent (and bore while you're at it) for continued reliable cycling it ain't no battle rifle. No reliability issues hunting with it.
 
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I always cleaned them with varsol, wiped dry, then a light spray of G96 and lightly wiped. G96 is not bothered with cold.
 
I use Hornady One-shot (not the case lube!) on trigger and bolt/receiver components after a cleaning/degreasing. It sprays on nicely and flashes away quickly, leaving behind an imperceptibly thin dry lube that doesn't seem to gum up at all. I've run it in my BAR for years.
 
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