Shotgun Oil

A fast check shows that there's Hoppe's, Remoil, Slip 2000, Beretta oil and a half gallon of Mobil One synthetic 30 weight. All work, but I like the SLIP best in bores and outside.

I also use a grease on hinge pins on my break action guns.
 
Jim - I have had my large bottle of Hoppe's Lubricating Oil for at least a decade - bought it a few years before I moved to sunny FL.........good product - can't say it is better or worse than any of the other quality brands - most are probably the same stuff anyway - but it works
 
another one of these threads again?

Mobile 1

A quart costs $5 and lasts much longer than the expensive commercial "gun oils". Some people mistakenly believe that commerical gun oils have special lubricating properties that set them apart from automotive lubricants. There are no 'gun oil factories' - they're all from the same petroleum refineries. Another example of Joe Shmoe falling for marketing 101
 
While refineries indeed "refine" oil, certain products are also modified through the introduction of other elements into the product (or their deliberate elimination of them), or by blending several products to achieve a certain different product. Some of these MAY be decent enough to use on guns, some MAY not.

Whether you want to use something for a car engine or not is your choice to make, but I have no issue paying a few dollars for products designed with (or without) extra additives for my guns
 
What are these so-called 'additives' that make commercial gun oil superior to 10w40 engine/automotive oil?

With the amount of Hoppe's 9 and oil i use after cleaning multiple shotguns, it makes sense to be resourceful to save a few dollars here and there.

I've been using 10w30 synthetic and mineral-based for over twenty years on all of my firearms with excellent results.
 
I wonder what the responses would have been if the OP had asked what's our shotgun lubricant of choice as opposed to oil. Typically, while shotgunning, I find myself spending much more time applying grease (and wiping it off, afterwards) to the pivot points of my O/Us than I do using oil on the internal parts. My grease of choice is Mobil 1; but, since it's been hard to find around here, I've used RIG and STOS.
 
What are these so-called 'additives' that make commercial gun oil superior to 10w40 engine/automotive oil?
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Actually, I was thinking about the additives in the motor oil, like detergents. If motor oil works for you, great - I find it a little too messy for me.
 
If your shotgun doesn't show any wear points ....say after 10,000 shells... what you're choosing to use is probably just fine.

But let's be honest .... we all understand changing the oil in our cars on a regular basis ! If we choose to shoot the shotgun for months and months - without cleaning and lubing it ....you have to know, that moving parts - that are dirty and grimy ....will cause excessive wear.

For my money --- clean your guns often ( preferably every time you shoot them ) and lube them after you clean them ....and hopefully, you won't see any wear after 200,000 shells ....
 
oneounceload said:
What are these so-called 'additives' that make commercial gun oil superior to 10w40 engine/automotive oil?
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Actually, I was thinking about the additives in the motor oil, like detergents. If motor oil works for you, great - I find it a little too messy for me.
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I've mentioned this before: The tech at PerazziUSA used a lube that was a 50:50 mix of Vaseline and 30W non-detergent motor oil.
 
> Zippy - did they ever say HOW they blended that mixture? ​
I never thought to ask.
I mix up paraffin, lamb tallow and beeswax in a double boiler to make my black powder lube. The Perazzi gorp process may be similar -- you may have to warm it up a bit.
 
A good chance that if Perazzi is mixing motor oil and vaseline to make a lube, the motor oil is Shell Helix Ultra. It is about $15-20 qt.
 
Sphawley,

A lube (lubricant) is a substance used to reduce friction between moving parts. Oil is a specific type of lubricant. At different thicknesses (viscosities) it can be used for everything from watch movements to heavy machinery. Oil can also serve to clean and protect metal surfaces.
 
xk120,

You may be correct, but we may never know. Since Perazzi now markets their own lube, I suspect the old mixture is no longer officially mentioned.


Jim,

That won't be very hard. :) When do you figure you'll be grown up? ;)
 
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