Oiling during range shooting?

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SkySlash

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I've noticed a few times off and on, seemingly experienced guys that stop after 20 rounds or so and oil their Semi-Automatic guns before continuing to fire.

I've always been one to fire a hundred rounds or so each trip to the range and then clean and oil the gun when I got home.

Do they know something I don't? I've only seen this done with SA pistols.

Should I start oiling my gun at the range also?

Why?

-SS
 
If your firearm is properly lubed prior to arriving at the range, I see no reason to lube during shooting.

Shake
 
Thats always been my philosophy.

I almost want to see if the gun will misfire as it gets dirtier.

Kind of a sadistic torture test just to measure reliability.

-SS
 
Some will disagree, but.....

If you are "oiling" your handgun, you will get better results by "lubing" it with one of the many lubricants available. There are several on the market that offer better results than anything that has "oil" in the name.

Just a thought.
 
Like Breakfree CLP.
A few drops in the gun in the middle of a range session will break up any crude and make cleaning a lot easier. I do this only during the first 500 rounds of the break in period.
 
Something I noticed at my last range session...

Friend of mine and I go to the range together most of the time. A few months ago he picked up a can of "dry" lube. It's sprays on wet, but dries almost instantly. The stuff is great for cleaning if you are quick with a cue tip. However, we found that dry lubing our weapons the night before resulted in many more failure to feed malfunctions then we'd ever had before. We weren't using different ammo than before, and although the feed ramp was getting a little dirty during previous range sessions, it never cause a FTF malfunction. We noticed that the same percieved amount of dirt was preventing the rounds from chambering correctly.

We haven't been back to the range yet, but I suspect that when we lube with CLP (I prefer it anyway) that we won't have the same malfunctions at the range.

So this is relevant...I wouldn't see any real reason to lube the gun during a range session unless something like the above was happening. (we left the CLP at home doh! so we couldn't clean at the range)

So I guess this is a "Don't use dry lube before going to a range" warning.

Mike
 
Or maybe your spring is getting un sprung.

Dry Lube... I'm not impressed with it. White Lithium grease is good... But BreakFree CLP is just fine - it covers all the bases and does everything pretty danged well.
 
I've seen guys do that before. Once just before the oil was set on fire when that next round was fired.:eek: Too much oil, or lube, is a bad thing.
 
Sometimes when a pistol fails to cycle properly at the range, a few drops of oil can fix the problem. Worked on a Ruger and Beretta.
 
If you use a proper lube (not oil) like Tera Gun Grease it will stay put for hundreds of rounds and not migrate so you don't need to "re-oil".
 
Ross Seyfried wrote in an article several years ago that he liked to use a lot of oil in his 1911's when he was a competitor in games that used that gun. He described the oil as flowing and carrying dirt out of the gun with it. As I recall, he said his shooting glasses would be spattered with oil droplets at the end of a shoot.
 
Depends on weapon. 1911 oil should be slopping over the sides. Glock lube, then wipe it all off.

Happened once to me at a school. 1911 would not go into battery. Very embarrassing, but a few drops of oil on barrel hood and end of barrel fixed the problem.
 
I shoot several hundred rounds each trip to the range, and I don't relube until after I've cleaned later at home. Five or six hundred a day in some classes. Never had a stoppage from anything but defective ammo, either. If you're using a decent lube, I don't see the point after a gun is broken in, unless as some other posters have mentioned, you have an exceptionally tight race gun.
 
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Just a dab will do.
 
Ive gone hundreds of rounds and 3 or 4 range sessions with no cleaning or oiling and have never had a problem, then again, they were Glocks. I did this to sorta test how well they would work without being cleaned.

Usually I shoot, wipe down (with a rag, no oil) then clean and lube/oil when I get home.
 
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