Favorite lube?

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Coop de Ville

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I spray all my firearms with a light coat of Remoil(w/teflon). I do this after cleaning as a rust preventative and not as a friction/application lube. I have used and have a few now, pro-lube, Mobil-1, lithium grease, and last night I picked up a tube of TW-25B (I'm a sucker for "try this stuff").

So, for a pump, I would think that very little lube is required. Remington suggests only RemOil, but that seems a bit thin. Anyone have a favorite?

Regards, -Coop
 
I've been using a combination of Rem-oil, SLiP 2000 & CLP.
The CLP seems to actually soak into the rough finish of my Express' while the SLP does not. I'm sure it's probably just evaporating but I like to imagine that the 870 has somehow absorbed it and is now rust proof!
I have noticed that the CLP also loosens up grunge real well.
I am using SLP on one 870 and CLP on the other just to see if I notice any difference. So far, no difference but I have not done anything remotely scientific to test this but I am leaning towards the CLP as an all-around lube. I just put some in my car door locks in fact!
Mike
 
I too find RemOil a bit too thin, and my tests showed it was not a particularly good rust preventative.

I've pretty much settled on Eezox for carry handguns (mainly because it is a dry lube and an exteremely effective rust preventative) and BreakFree CLP for everything else.

That's not to say that I wouldn't be happy with certain other products (e.g., FP-10), but I've found the virtues of buying bulk quantities and not fussing over products since I found those that work well for me.

I have also discovered the benefit of using the same products repeatedly. That is, once a gun is thoroughly cleaned and stripped of lubes, and then lubed with Eezox, using only Eezox to clean and lube seems to work far better than, for example, cleaning with bore cleaner and lubing afterwards.
 
CLP and SLIP 2000 for lubes, and a shot of Hoppe's #9 for when the bore needs more attention.

SLIP's marketrep says the stuff penetrates the metal and stays on better that way, even in the bore when firing. I seem to have less plastic buildup since using the SLIP.

Most shotguns are both over and under lubed and cleaned. The bores get done, but lotsa shotguns out there could use more attention in the action than not,IME.

Breakaction guns benefit from a yearly takedown by a qualified person and cleaned/lubed. Most do not get it once a decade.

And when lubing, wipe on, wipe off, works..
 
I only use Lithium grease and other like lubricants on the hinge of my breaking guns. The pumps and semis that I have owned were LIGHTLY oiled along the action rails and other moving parts. Lubricating oil should not be used on the wood, and the guns shouldn't be oil so heavily that the oil migrates into the wood. Lubricating oil is a sure way to ruin wood stocks.
 
I would recommend searching old threads by member Cruzer (also Curuzer - his typo) on the subject. He is a petrochemical engineer, and offered lots of real and scholarly information on the subject of gun lubricants...not the ubiquitous "bonds with metal at the molecular level" BS

Personally, I stick with reformulated BreakFree CLP for most cleaning and ALL lube jobs

Llike Dave McC, good ole Hoppe's for a neat bore scrubbing when the crud is especially tenacious, as after shooting Sellier&Bellot ammo...
 
Kellube for those I use (my carry guns, a 1911 and an Kahr Mk9, and a shotgun by the bed). Ox-yoke on the blued surfaces.

RIG for all the rest of the stuff in ready storage.
 
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