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best oil/grease

  • 13-03-2019 12:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭


    Hi, looking for recommendations for best oil/grease to use to clean/maintain a 12 gauge o/u shotgun. Thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,808 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Oil wise I like Brunox but I've also used Beretta spray oil and Hoppes No.9 spray oil too.

    Grease..I use a little tub of Brian Enos 'Slide Glide' I bought about 5 years ago. You can also get some Hoppes tubes of grease or the Bisley tubs of it.

    Don't know how fussy you are but the best thing I found for cleaning out plastic wad fouling in the barrel was some Hoppes Elite spray and a Parker Hale brush,much more dense than normal brushes..it's like a Brillo pad, cleans it out no bother.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭useurowname


    Drop of WD 40. As good as any on a break action the repeaters prob need something finer .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    Brunox for cleaning. Napier grease for the locking block etc. Use a mixture of 0w30 and gun oil for a general coat on the action and barrels


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    Drop of WD 40. As good as any on a break action the repeaters prob need something finer .

    Didnt take long, run fast, before they all tell you how wrong you are ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 473 ✭✭The pigeon man


    A spray of brunox down the barrels. Use a bore snake and then clean the moving parts and lube them with this grease.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comma-BG2500G-Performance-Bearing-Grease/dp/B007WR38TY

    You don't need a specialised gun grease. This stuff is keeps everything moving smoothly and prevents corrosion. It's also resistant to high temperatures and pressures.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    garv123 wrote: »
    Didnt take long, run fast, before they all tell you how wrong you are ;)

    Barrels up or down ha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Ballistol.Dont need anything else.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭rugerfanatic


    3 in 1 been using it years for everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Max H


    cheers, like the sound of Ballistol, anyone else using it????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Old School! Rangoon Oil.

    First they came for the socialists...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Robotack


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Ballistol.Dont need anything else.

    Where are you buying it? Never saw it here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Max H




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    Iv a big can of that browning legia. Whats it actually for can anyone tell me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    Iv a big can of that browning legia. Whats it actually for can anyone tell me?

    I remember that one from year's ago. It's the FN/Browning branded general purpose gun lubrication and cleaning oil. The name Legia refers to a stream in the city of Liege where it flows into the Meuse. FN/Browning's home place is the city of Liege.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,070 ✭✭✭cavan shooter


    Used brunox for the barrells but picked up some 3 in 1 a while back in a garage and remembered my Dad used it have to say it does the trick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Ballistol.Dont need anything else.


    Are people using this as a light lubrication on semi auto parts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    A word of warning about using grease on guns. If any dirt/grit mixes with the grease it will start grinding away at your moving parts like coarse lapping compound. Light oil is best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭hedzball


    None..


    Let em rust and get a new one every few years.



    'Hdz


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