Slide maintenence - (Grease or oil)

[topspin43]

What are you guys using to maintain proper slide action?

Currently using Break Free CLP but seems dry after a week in the safe.

Thoughts?

[Ac1d0v3r1d3]

grease just seems like it would cratch dirt and whatnot and that might be an issue, ever try dry lube?

[KLR]

RIG +P Stainless Steel lube on the rails of all my guns. CLP on the barrel.

[swmike]

Plain old Break Free CLP here. My 469 is 20 years old with several thousand rounds through it. Nothing else used. No sign of wear. Cleaned and oiled every 2 weeks if not shot.

[topspin43]

So you will oil your pistols every 2 weeks even if you do not use them?

[MillCreek]

Tetra Gun Grease on the rails and bearing surfaces, liquid Tetra on the barrel and other areas needing a liquid lube.

[p99guy]

I too use Tetra on the rails and bearing surfaces...that stuff is great! Its non migrating (it dont "drain" off like gun oil does after a few days of sitting muzzle down) and really isnt a magnet for dirt.(a little goes a long way)
Tend to use a all synthetic oil(mpro7) for everything else.

[waltherp22sd]

I use TW25B from Mil-Comm on my slides and rails, Break Free CLP on everthing else.

[HSMITH]

Grease all the way. Grease on the barrel contact surfaces too.

[wingman]

FP10 on everything including inside barrel, does not collect dust, "seems" to improve accuracy, gun stays clean and I have not detected any wear.
No more grease. :)

[tinkanting]

im using oil
militec and break free

[swmike]

Answer to topspin43-

Yes, I clean guns every 2 weeks when not shot. Try to get to the range about that often but sometimes can't so I clean and lube. Started doing regular weapons maintenance in 1965 when I went in the Army and have continued to this day. Now I'm retired so I have more time. Not really a big deal because it is a routine. All my weapons are in top condition and I wouldn't hesitate relying on any of them to come through when necessary.

[kymasabe]

I used to use BreakFree but recently switched to Slide Glide gun lube, is a grease, doesn't run or sheer, the stuff is great. Highly recommend it.

[Magyar]

Oil: Switched from Mobil 1 synthetic to FP-10 Lubricant Elite....

[garrettwc]

Another FP10 user here.

[Wildalaska]

Grease, RIG or Remington or Browning Midas or that GI stuff in the little tubs

If in reeal coooooooooold, then just graphite

WildtheonlywaytogoAlaska

[WESHOOT2]

Not.

But I shoot IPSC up here all year 'round (yes, we hold "Winter Matches"; shovel down four feet to the ground...www.gmps.ws) in the cold (-25F) and the heat (100+F) and the gritty dust and such, then I go other places in the heat and the rain and the fine/gritty/talc-like sand/dust/etc.

As most know I firmly believe that "first it MUST go bang" so I have been trying different lubricants (and solvents, too) for 31 years.

On my 1911's and EAA Witnesses and a Glock and my Ruger revolvers I use TetraGrease on the slide rails (okay, no rails on the Rugers, but they got parts that mate) followed by a drop of Breakfree CLP.

I use grease on most all the 'battered' surfaces, because that's what normally wears out the gun.

Oneamy Witnesses is now no doubt well over the 40K-rd-ct mark, and (I'm sure) my Caspian 1911 has most likely passed the 10K milestone.

They run when I need them.

(I refuse to relube during a high-rd-ct match. Just me. I have reasons; know what I mean?)

[lrglnman]

Tetra grease all the way.