What lube do you use in your M1 Garand or Carbine?

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I'll be getting both soon enough and plan to do quite a bit of shooting in both. I'm concerned about shooting dirty ammo in my carbine and having the action gunk up.

What sort of lube would you recommend for a Garand an a Universal carbine?
 
Grease. I use a wally world tub of Castrol MP(multi purpose)......no problems to report. I hit the bare metal with a light go of CLP before applying the grease. I always remove old, and apply new lube, prior to each outing.
 
I own 42+ m1 carbines and they only get the original USGI rifle grease

the m1 garand/carbines were designed for grease not oil!

the grease comes in little 2 1/2cc pots that fit in the garands buttstock

I sell them $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00 + shipping pm me
 
The Civilian Marksmanship Program sells M1s to the US public. They have an online manual (dub dub dub .odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/care_and_cleaning_of_your_m1.htm).

I use moly grease in a five-year old tube from Canajan Tire, applied with a sliver of kindling wood or a screwdriver tip.
 
Synthetic high pressure grease that I get from work. Don't worry about dirty round gumming up the works. I put 200 rounds of remington Umc through my carbine (very dirty rounds) and it still functioned flawlessly. These are military guns, they are not precision machines. They are meant to function with lots of crap in the action. Just clean and re-grease when done at the range.
 
"...How much grease..." Just a wee bit. It doesn't need to be slathered in grease and only where the manual says to put it. If the environment is very cold or dusty, use graphite or shoot it bone dry.
 
I use some expensive assembly lube from my motorcycle. Supposed to be sticky and stay in place, not run or spray around.
I use a trimmed acid brush to apply a very light coat in the correct locations. Works great, you can brush out the lube to a very thin coat, like brushing on paint.
 
Here is what I found...

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http://www.biggerhammer.net/manuals/garand/fig33.htm
 
Coyote Ugly is correct. Lubriplate is white lithium grease that was specified for Garands in WWII. It is the stuff to use without fear.

dub dub dub biggerhammer has great pages. Thanks reminding me.
 
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