Author Topic: Oiling cleaned guns (Read 956 times)

Cheyenne Ranger · « **on:** January 12, 2003, 08:49:08 AM »

Once you clean your guns what do you use as the final oil coating? Do you spray or apply with a rag?

ButlerFord45 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2003, 11:51:04 AM »

Ranger, I haven't heard much of Ballistol on this forum, but it is the only oil I use. I thought that it was a bunch of exageration when I was first heearing about it, but I tried a can that I picked up at a gun show. I became a believer. I wouldn't even consider using anything else. I get a can of liquid, 2 large aresol cans and 2 or 3 of the little cans. The last coat I spray on, sometimmes I wipe it down, sometimes not, it will leave a thick coat instead of just running off like oil, sort of like thin cosmoline, but you can wipe the excess off with just a cloth any time you like.

Dutch Canyon Red · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2003, 12:09:34 PM »

Cheyenne Ranger,
What Butler Ford45 said. After you use this stuff a couple of times, it builds a protective coating that soaks into the pores of the metal and rust will be a thing of the past. I have wiped my guns down with Ballistol after a match in the rain, left them in the case for a couple of weeks and there was no rust when they were taken out for cleaning. I realize that this kind of treatment is wrong but sometimes I get lazy or tired or distracted or just plain busy. For the past two years I have not used any other product to clean or oil any of my guns. An added bonus is that leading in the forcing cone is lessened and what is there cleans up much easier.
:grin: :grin:

Old Cane · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2003, 03:09:42 PM »

I'm gonna hafta find some of that. Surely somebody in this area carries it. I'll have to ask around.

Sweetwater Jack · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2003, 04:45:31 PM »

Old Cane,

Midway - http://www.midwayusa.com/ carries it. I just order on the internet and wait for the brown truck.
SWJ

Dutch Canyon Red · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2003, 05:06:15 PM »

Old Cane,
The outfit that imports the stuff is in Kitty Hawk, NC. They'll sell it to ya direct.

Ballistol

ButlerFord45 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2003, 06:01:33 PM »

Yep, that's the stuff, package number three for me!! :-D Thanks of the link Red

Jose Grande · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2003, 07:45:39 PM »

4 .oz Murphey's oil soap to 1 gal. water for BP clean-up. Dab of Murphey on cylinder pin. Break-Free on smokey-less guns.IMHO :-)

Cottonwood · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2003, 03:12:18 AM »

Been using Ballistol in my bullet lube since way back.... it flat out works

Buffalo Gold

8 oz. purified beeswax
4 oz. coconut oil bar
4 oz. ballistol

You get a nice wet star at the end of your barrel and fouling stays very soft.

Old Cane · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2003, 04:17:56 AM »

Thanks, all. I'll just let my fingers do the walking, then.