Originally Posted by AZjeff
Originally Posted by Ws6
Originally Posted by AZjeff
I shoot with a retired Army Small Arms Specialist who's job was to keep weapons running in the sandbox. He put a drop of oil on the gas rings only there and the same here. Situation and environment determines best practice. What you do sounds good for a range-home gun. Kneegrinder's lube works for him in Idaho but wouldn't do so well in the desert.
Best practice in the desert with a bunch of moon dust is sloppy wet, clean often, keep your ejection port door closed and a mag in the gun of course.
Next time I see him I'll tell him he was doing it all wrong.
It looks like the original link to this report no longer works but I found part posted here. I run pretty wet.
https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/foru...ng-and-lubricating-the-glock#Post1006705
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Treated with light lubrication, new M16A4s and M4s, performed poorly in the extreme dust and sand conditions of the test, according to a January report from ATEC.
But when testers applied a heavy coat of lubrication to the weapons, the test results showed a �significant improvement.�
Out of the 60,000 rounds fired in each phase, the M4 stoppage-rate dropped from 9,836 with light lubrication to 678 with heavy lubrication.
The M16A4 stoppage-rate dropped from 2,124 with light lubrication to 507 with heavy lubrication, results show.