I'm sure several of you have see the video by LV about using too much lube. It's rather entertaining to say the least, straight up. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bOT_d60LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bOT_d60LM
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Question about lubrication for CCP
- Thread starter Betweentheburyd
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Never seen that LV clip before, but glad I just watched it. I just got back from the range. Ran 100 rounds each in a Ruger 22/45, High Standard Citation, and a M1911. Little spots of oil on both sleeves of my sweatshirt, and had to wipe the spots off my glasses and face between each pistol change. That's the way I do it, good bad or otherwise.
Cheapshooter
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One question about the obviously extreme of the video. What if ghey would have, in complete fairness, extended that extremism to taking a leaf blower yo all that dirt on the ground while holding the guns in the vloud of dust?
Just saying, extremes can be used to make any point.
No, you don't, as they said, run you car without oil. But if you have any common sense, you lu ricate it as the ma ufacturer recomends. Just as you should your guns.
Just saying, extremes can be used to make any point.
No, you don't, as they said, run you car without oil. But if you have any common sense, you lu ricate it as the ma ufacturer recomends. Just as you should your guns.
I like Shooter's Choice, among others. I am not a fan of a one thing does it all well, like any CLP. Use a cleaning agent of your choice and the lubricant of your choice afterwards and apply as the manual states. Listen to the folks who made the gun, not all of the experts on the Net.
The Aberdeen dust tests found that heavy lubrication greatly improved the M4's reliability in very dusty conditions (in terms of mean rounds between failures) compared to light lubrication. The M4 isn't a pistol, but that's one data point.
Personally, I'd rather err on the side of lubricating too much than too little; you can always cycle the slide several times and wipe off the excess. I just keep it out of the chamber and magazine well to avoid any concerns about oil and primers.
I have two main beefs with CLP as a lubricant for a carry gun, though. First, it smells strongly, and a CCW heavily lubricated with CLP will make you smell like you used CLP for cologne. Second, CLP is a combination product, designed to simplify military logistics by replacing bore cleaner, lubricant, and preservative with one compromise do-all mixture. The lubrication abilities of CLP are compromised *a little* by the need for it to simultaneously be a low-viscosity cleaner, and I think a straight-up synthetic lubricant is a more effective lubricant than a combination cleaning solvent and lube.
Personally, I'd rather err on the side of lubricating too much than too little; you can always cycle the slide several times and wipe off the excess. I just keep it out of the chamber and magazine well to avoid any concerns about oil and primers.
I have two main beefs with CLP as a lubricant for a carry gun, though. First, it smells strongly, and a CCW heavily lubricated with CLP will make you smell like you used CLP for cologne. Second, CLP is a combination product, designed to simplify military logistics by replacing bore cleaner, lubricant, and preservative with one compromise do-all mixture. The lubrication abilities of CLP are compromised *a little* by the need for it to simultaneously be a low-viscosity cleaner, and I think a straight-up synthetic lubricant is a more effective lubricant than a combination cleaning solvent and lube.
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