Best gun lubricant

[wingriderz]

Uh oh !! Me having major flash backs on a motorcycle forum on whats the best oil. Lol it got very heated and ugly

 

[REVL33]

Grant Cunningham, the highly respected revolver smith, has an artticle on this. His conclusion? Automatic Transmission Fluid, as others have noted above.

Here's the article: GrantCunningham.com - Library

Actually he was a big fan of lubriplate plate go to the next page where I responded

 

[REVL33]

Oil Wars.....gotta love 'em!

Grant Cunningham has it right.

Yeah you think we're on a Harley-Davidson best oil thread good grief

 

[REVL33]

A vote here for Mpro7 Gun Oil as well as Mpro7 cleaner. No smell with either, and the oil has done well. The newer "LPX" has a cleaning agent to repel dirt. Haven't used it yet. It's not cheap but oil goes a long way. Have yet to find the perfect cleaner or oil but Mpro's as good as I've found and the lack of smell is a big plus.

Good oil I've been using it for probably about 10 years now a small bottle goes a long way

 

[REVL33]

Uh oh !! Me having major flash backs on a motorcycle forum on whats the best oil. Lol it got very heated and ugly

Right

 

[Rustyt1953]

To repeat...

 

[REVL33]

 

[Autonomous]

Earl the oilbird says hello!

 

[Golddollar]

I've been using Break Free for decades. One question though. After you have determined what the best lubricant is for your guns, what do you do with all of the old bottles of oil, cleaners etc.?

 

[JcMack]

EEZOX

 

[chief38]

For every day use I have found no better than G96 synthetic CLP (yellow bottle). It protects and lubricates just as well as Break-free CLP but I find it actually does the cleaning a bit better. When a gun has been really shot a lot and is filthy, nothing beats Hoppes 9 solvent - followed with the G96 after it's clean. For an M1 Garand I use Lubriplate and for a few other rare scenarios that I use grease, I use RIG +P grease. For longterm storage - nothing beats Rig Universal (a little heavier consistency than the Rig +P).

 

[sceva]

I use whatever is handy, currently it's a small bottle from Ed Brown. Almost anything will work and I have used everything from 3 in 1 oil to the clp's or Triflon, to the latest miracle oil and heve never had an issue with any of them except some smell worse.

 

[65-2x2]

Castrol GTX 5-20 full synthetic. The quart will last my lifetime.

 

[BE Mike]

FP-10 pretty much it

When FP-10 was new, I saw a live demo of its lubricating properties compared to a lot of other gun oils. It made me a believer! That being said, any good quality gun oil will work. For rust prevention, I use a silicone cloth, but Eezox and Corrosion X are good too.