Skill Set: AR Lubes

[Combat Controller]

All my grease experience with the exception of M1a's and Garand's has been uniformly bad. It feels good, but in dusty conditions here in Texas I have had it seize up guns so hard I had to use tools to break them free. That is using a minimum amount of grease too! It is very embarrassing during IDPA matches to have your gun and your spare both seize up while running courses. The third and the fifth if my memory serves. That is not a lot of shooting before failure. I had great success with it at the indoor range for two sessions prior to that, with many more rounds downrange so I thought it was ready for prime time.

I have never used it in an AR, I felt it was just a bad idea from the start.

YMMV

[Ben Rumson]

No sand here in mainland VA, yet the more I try the various hybrids, the more I find myself satisfied by Hoppe's in the retro and functional sturdy plastic orange squeeze bottle.

[JAG2955]

I guess that Mr. McKee would be disappointed to know that I run my AR and my M4 very dry. A few drops of RemOil on any wearing surface, AND THAT IS IT.

I didn't let my Marines use the range spray bottle of CLP into the ejection port. I would ask them what they were oiling....basically the cartridge and the ejection port dust cover.

CLP also sucks unless it's all you've got. It's a terrible cleaner and a slightly less terrible lubricant.

[blackeagle603]

That's the nice thing about Tetra grease. Wipe it on, wipe it off, It's there and doing it's good. Technically not a dry lube but for my purposes and environment close enough.

I like it on the rails of my 1911's and BHP. I can pull them out of storage after many many months of being neglected and they function fine. That's not the way it's worked for me with other lubes -- often would get some kind of malf in the first mag or two if I didn't first relube rails after prolonged storage. Not so with Tetra.

std disclaimer: (knock on wood -- so far. Plural of anecdote is not data).

[Darrell]

What about Slide Glide? I know a guy who raves about it.

http://www.brianenos.com/pages/slide-glide.html