FranDoc Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Recently discovered that the gun lube that's worked fine with the XD all summer is a bit ... ahem ... sluggish ... at 30 degrees. What do the cold-weather shooters like for Production guns at near-freezing temperatures - and WHY do you prefer what you use? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcalvert Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Here in Arizona it's usually pretty warm but when it does get near freezing it is obvious that the lube can slow the gun down. I prefer to use Gun Butter in this weather. good stuff! www.gunbutter.com dcalvet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Move to a warmer climate All kidding aside, you need a oil and not a greasy lube. Brian sells Slide Glide, and has different #'s for different Temps. Check out THIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoofy Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I've used the Slide Glide Lite in my STI down to 20 F (at start of match) . Any colder and I use FP10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipscbob Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I use oil year round. There are a lot of really good ones available and they are all pretty good. I use Break free mostly but I ran out and started using ProShot recently and it stays put a bit better than the BF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZ Bagger Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 FP10 works in my open gun at nearly 20 below zero.... It also works fine at 95 degrees and 200% humidity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I've been trying some free stuff from a prize table, Brownells Friction Defense. A little thinner than Gun Butter & similar to Kellube M12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZ Bagger Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Kellube M12 is too thick for my open gun in truly cold weather. What that cutoff point is I can't say exactly, but others may know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjbine Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Move to a warmer climate All kidding aside, you need a oil and not a greasy lube. Brian sells Slide Glide, and has different #'s for different Temps. Check out THIS +1 Slide Glide Lite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Move to a warmer climate All kidding aside, you need a oil and not a greasy lube. Brian sells Slide Glide, and has different #'s for different Temps. Check out THIS +1 Slide Glide Lite Sorry for the drift but I must..... Mike, are you saying you wouldn't recommend the stuff you had on your Edge at the start of the WPA Section?? I'll spare the details but I think Mike's forum title should be something like "Breaks guns....." *********** To the OP's question I pretty much only run oil; tried gun butter and liked it when someone gave me some also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjbine Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 (edited) Move to a warmer climate All kidding aside, you need a oil and not a greasy lube. Brian sells Slide Glide, and has different #'s for different Temps. Check out THIS +1 Slide Glide Lite Sorry for the drift but I must..... Mike, are you saying you wouldn't recommend the stuff you had on your Edge at the start of the WPA Section?? I'll spare the details but I think Mike's forum title should be something like "Breaks guns....." *********** To the OP's question I pretty much only run oil; tried gun butter and liked it when someone gave me some also. Hahahaha Breaks guns..... That is what I do best! Edited October 22, 2007 by mjbine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipplehead Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 mobile 1....great below freezing or any temp....mix with slideglide in hot weather(for pistols)....Mobile 1 is a carbon inhibitor good to use on the Remmy 1100 gas system us gennerously on the outside of polished mag tube...really make a remmy run good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 mobile 1....great below freezing or any temp....mix with slideglide in hot weather(for pistols)....Mobile 1 is a carbon inhibitor good to use on the Remmy 1100 gas system us gennerously on the outside of polished mag tube...really make a remmy run good +1 on synthetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 mobile 1....great below freezing or any temp....mix with slideglide in hot weather(for pistols)....Mobile 1 is a carbon inhibitor good to use on the Remmy 1100 gas system us gennerously on the outside of polished mag tube...really make a remmy run good +1 Slide Glide in the Summer, Mobil 1 when it gets cold. I learned this one Winter when I had to rack the slide and fire, rack the slide and fire, rack the slide and fire....after about 6 manual cycles the gun ran okay for the rest of a stage. Repeat on the next stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Recently discovered that the gun lube that's worked fine with the XD all summer is a bit ... ahem ... sluggish ... at 30 degrees. What do the cold-weather shooters like for Production guns at near-freezing temperatures - and WHY do you prefer what you use?Thanks. Fran, A quart of Mobil 1 motor oil will last you forever, and only cost a few dollars. A light weight viscosity would suit your purposes. How is your XD setup and what load are you running through it? They can get a little iffy with really light loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranDoc Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 A quart of Mobil 1 motor oil will last you forever, and only cost a few dollars. A light weight viscosity would suit your purposes.How is your XD setup and what load are you running through it? They can get a little iffy with really light loads. Kyle -- Gun is an XD9, 4", pretty much out-of-the-box. Canyon Creek did their standard trigger adjustment over a year ago. The fiasco with the fiber optic front sight is the stuff of recent legend (SA knows). I swear by Tru-Grip because the polymer slides around too much without it. I use Slide Glide 'regular' viscosity and it's worked fine all summer. Dry lube runs the gun too dry, it's been tried. Ammo: factory Remington 115 gr for matches, PF right at 125 at both OH & W PA Sectionals. Occasionally run Blazer Brass in practice, but that seems to create more recoil/flip and flash/bang more than the Remington. I'm starting to work with reloads (4.0 of N320 with 124 gr PD or MG). Gun handles well in warm weather with that. Have not sent any of those through a chrono, will do that shortly. Will likely reload the next batch with Solo 1000 -- a bit cheaper than VV; and one of the guys I shoot with (Ryan) has a lot of experience with it and likes how it performs. The lube question is because I shot Sat AM @ W PA -- in the shadows for the first 3 stages. Never ran the gun at ~35-degrees before and had not anticipated how much the slide cycle would slow. Got better once we moved into the stages with sun. Our next match here will be Nov 4. We're sending burnt offerings to the weather deities, but we could well have an inch of sleet on everything by then. I need to have the gun prepped for cold unless I know it'll be 60 degrees & sunny. I plan to shoot all winter, but hopefully very little of that will be out in the snowbanks. Will get a quart of synthetic oil and see how it works alone and combined with the Slide Glide. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boz1911 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Recently discovered that the gun lube that's worked fine with the XD all summer is a bit ... ahem ... sluggish ... at 30 degrees. What do the cold-weather shooters like for Production guns at near-freezing temperatures - and WHY do you prefer what you use?Thanks. Fran, A quart of Mobil 1 motor oil will last you forever, and only cost a few dollars. A light weight viscosity would suit your purposes. How is your XD setup and what load are you running through it? They can get a little iffy with really light loads. +1 on the Mobil One. It is available in 0w20 as the lightest viscosity that I am aware of.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splashdown Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 +1 for Gun Butter. One lube for all weather conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel1212 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Being that its a 4" gun the slide isn't as heavy as mine with the 5" so I would think the 125 PF would be fine. As far as a XD or Glock, Or MP getting stuck because of lube are you putting rubber cement in there to J/K. I ran the medium slide glide year round in my XDs and switch to the lite slide glide.....umm about now for the 1911s thanks for the reminder lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulm540 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Mobil 1 synthetic 10 W 30 . I use it all year. It is cheap and works all year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcattack Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I was useing mobile #1 but I have switched to royal purple synthetic. I use less and the gun is a lot smoother with R.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry White Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Mobil 1, 10w30 for everthing year round.-------------Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhglyn Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 +1 for FP10. Use it on all my guns at all temperatures, -20 to 100! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aircooled6racer Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Hello: I use Mobil 1 for oil. For grease I use Redline Assemble lube. If it works for the Porsche engines I build then it should be good for a pistol. I have not tried the assemble lube in really cold weather but down here 50 degrees is cold. Hope this helps. Thanks, Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranDoc Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 Hello: I use Mobil 1 for oil. For grease I use Redline Assemble lube. If it works for the Porsche engines I build then it should be good for a pistol. I have not tried the assemble lube in really cold weather but down here 50 degrees is cold. Hope this helps. Thanks, Eric Fifty degrees is T-shirt weather for this long-transplanted Canadienne! Already know that Slide Glide works OK at 50; it's freezing-and-below that I needed suggestions for. Thanks to all. I have synthetic oil, will try the other options and see what works best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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