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best oil/grease

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  • 13-03-2019 1:19pm
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    Max H
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭


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


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    Witcher
    Registered Users Posts: 14,443 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    useurowname
    Registered Users Posts: 396 ✭✭useurowname


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


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    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭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


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


    useurowname wrote: »
    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 ;)


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    The pigeon man
    Registered Users 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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    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


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

    Barrels up or down ha


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    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,950 ✭✭✭✭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 "



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    rugerfanatic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭rugerfanatic


    3 in 1 been using it years for everything.


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    #10
    Max H
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭Max H


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


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Old School! Rangoon Oil.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Robotack
    Registered Users Posts: 833 ✭✭✭Robotack


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

    Where are you buying it? Never saw it here.


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    Max H
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭Max H


    http://lakelandsportssupplies.ie/shooting/Oils--Sprays/Ballistol-Gun-Oil-Spray-122-15-226.html


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    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


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


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    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,950 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Robotack wrote: »
    Where are you buying it? Never saw it here.

    https://www.miscota.ie/horses/ballistol/p-164754?r=4017777217186&gclid=CjwKCAjwvbLkBRBbEiwAChbckfvHpl4ZEW9M90aDrST6blLCmJNnv-5QWKFKDM7JFFex5NnEmWg4qhoCdiMQAvD_BwE

    https://www.bike24.com/p235249.html

    https://www.louis.ie/katalog/marken/ballistol/304

    "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 "



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    meathstevie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,772 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    Gorgeousgeorge wrote: »
    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.


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    cavan shooter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭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.


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


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


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


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users 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.


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    #20
    hedzball
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭hedzball


    None..


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



    'Hdz


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