funny you should ask about cold weather oil. I also hunt in very cold weather and have often hunted at -20c or colder. We have had alot of problems with gumming up of lubricants. A few years ago I did a test of some popular lubes. I used a metal plate that I put in the deep freeze along with some of the test lubes. I removed the plate and the lubes and proceeded to place equal amounts of lube on parts of the plate and reinserted the whole thing back in the freezer positioned at a slight angle, after a few minutes I removed the plate and compared which oil had flowed the furthest. I was shocked at how bad the oils performed in the cold even though they clearly advertise a broad operating temperature range. At the time the Pro-Shot all Weather oil flowed the best, with the runners up being the Break Free, Birch. Casey Synthetic, Hoppes and the Outers. Since then I have developed a lubrication routine that has proven foolproof in the cold. I use Eezox to coat the metal after thouroughly degreasing the gun and this is the second year since the initial treatment without any sign of corrosion. I have not lubricated the gun in two years and it has been hunted for a total of five weeks in cold weather. The cold is not the only problem it is also prone to sweating when the firearm is brought into a warm area after spending the whole day outdoors and this is also a testament of the products corrosion protection. I had never known about Eezox until I saw a test in the 6br forum about rust preventatives and it was also the fact that the product is applied wet but then dries that attracted me to it.
enough to brave the elements like that for a limit of late season geese.
