How to "Really" grease up a S&W

[NE450No2]

True story. In the late 1970's I was at an official Departmental Qualification.

The Dept revolver smiths were in the back going over everybodies gun, we were in the classroom,when one of them that I knew real well came out and motioned for me to come to the aromoury.

Inside, he hands me a S&W 64, with the grips off, that has the entire area between the grips PACKED with wheel bearing grease.

The armours are livid, but wanted my opinion before supervisors were called...

So I suggested we ask the officer what his intend was...

So I ease out and ask the officer to come back with me to the Armoury...

He explaines that he has seen that when you put rubber grios on a S&W, even the stainless ones, they still rust a little under the grips.

The head armour told me to talk to him, so I explained the error of his ways, but did commend him on at least trying to take care of his gun....

Then I calmed the Armours down with the same logic, at least he was trying to do right.....

 

[500 Magnum Nut]

Shocking story. Did he get his holster full of grease too?

 

[tomcatt51]

Clearly an officer on the path to becoming Chief.

 

[n4zov]

Reminds me of an 4" Model 29 I traded for back in the early 60's. It had been carried by a local PD detective until he decided it was a little much for belt carry under a sport coat. That gun was absolutely packed full of that black Gunslick Graphite Grease. It oozed out everywhere. I have to admit the gun had an incredibly smooth action, but the hammer fall was a little s-l-o-w. I wonder how many white shirts he ruined with that lube!

 

[M29since14]

Clearly an officer on the path to becoming Chief.

Good one. I have seen a few cop S&Ws fairly swimming in oil, but never one packed with grease!

I was once given a Model 36 to check out by a local deputy who couldn't hit anything with it any more - simply because the gun was so full of oily crud it could hardly be fired double-action. When I told him all I did to it was thoroughly clean it, I don't think he believed me.

Much like this man in your story, the deputy obviously tried to take care of the gun. Externally, it was in very nice shape.

 

[buckeyeshooter1]

Sounds to me like the armory needed to give the officers a class on how to properly maintain the weapon. I see no fault in an officer attempting to maintain gear. It is an education problem not an intelligence problem. I would be happy the officers were willing to take the extra time to do maintence--- I would just spend some time showing how to do it correctly!

 

[Bodyguard]

When I was a kid my local PD would sponsor a combat shooting event for the departments in the area. One of the local officers who participated, a 20 year veteran, shot in the competition. He was using a blued S&W revolver, like everybody back then. When the commence order was given, he pulled the trigger and nothing happened. When they checked out the revolver, the cartridges were rusted to the cylinder! He was asked when was the last time he cleaned his gun. He said when he bought it, in 1957! The year was 1976! Believe it or not that's the truth. After all the abuse he took for that, he retired the next year.