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Offline DOC 1500

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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2021, 04:31:55 PM »
JMHO, I don't think that gun was ever lubed or oiled. 2-3 months that should not occur .Looks like typical CZ pins that need to be polished.
Go back and read the entire content of the opening post. You carry a gun through the hottest time of the year in an outdoor environment and soak it in salt laden sweat from your body and this is EXACTLY what will happen. If you are not maintaining the cleanliness and lubrication of the guns you carry on a daily basis at least every 2 weeks you are destined to fail. If you sweat enough to wet your holster and gun more often is needed. This is a tool you may need to trust your life to and it deserves every respect possible.
I did read the entire post!
I don't think I've ever carried a gun where I sweated so much that I soaked my holster.😲
I don't carry my gun when I do yard work in the summer heat.
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Offline M1A4ME

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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2021, 05:56:41 PM »
I field stripped and cleaned/lubed my P07 9MM that gets carried open (magazines, too) around my yard/garage, etc. while I was outside this afternoon.

Pistol was gritty.  Pulling the trigger I could feel it and hear it.  Brushed and lubed till the noise/feel went away.  I emptied and disassembled the magazine from the pistol and the darn thing was pretty clean.  Wiped it out, wiped down the spring, put it back together and loaded it up.

Then I pulled the two out of the double mag. pouch and they were just nasty inside.  Took several passes with a dry cloth to get all the sand/grit out of them.  And I had to wipe down the rounds removed the magazines to get the dirt off them, too.  Put it all back together and put my stuff away.

The M&P is next.  Most likely putting the M&P to sleep in the safe.  Even the 5" PC slide/ported barrel won't shoot like my P07/P09 pistols.  Last field strip, cleaning and oiling.

The pistol and the magazines are a system.  Take care of the whole system.
I just keep wasting time and money on other brands trying to find/make one shoot like my P07 and P09.  What is wrong with me?

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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2021, 08:50:09 PM »
JMHO, I don't think that gun was ever lubed or oiled. 2-3 months that should not occur .Looks like typical CZ pins that need to be polished.
Go back and read the entire content of the opening post. You carry a gun through the hottest time of the year in an outdoor environment and soak it in salt laden sweat from your body and this is EXACTLY what will happen. If you are not maintaining the cleanliness and lubrication of the guns you carry on a daily basis at least every 2 weeks you are destined to fail. If you sweat enough to wet your holster and gun more often is needed. This is a tool you may need to trust your life to and it deserves every respect possible.
I did read the entire post!
I don't think I've ever carried a gun where I sweated so much that I soaked my holster.😲
I don't carry my gun when I do yard work in the summer heat.
The point is this guy carried his gun and exposed it to severe body sweat. Many people who carry iwb will soak a holster in hot weather which means they need to be even more dilligent in their cleaning and maintenance. I used to carry iwb and quit carrying that way for a couple reasons but not the least of which was that in the summer heat I'm a heavy sweater and the back of my holster would become pretty wet soaking through enough to dampen my gun. I went to owb on my hip at 3-4:30 position and solved that issuee.

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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2021, 11:28:24 PM »
I switch to owb for the same reason.
Plus I find it more comfortable.
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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2021, 05:35:44 PM »
Your buddy needs to go to the range more often.

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Re: Keep your carry guns lubed!
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2021, 12:03:59 AM »
I've seen a similar photo in the past.  Several years ago on Reddit, a guy posted a photo of the top of his mag catch plug in the frame of his P-07, and it was rusted to the point that it was crumbling.  If I remember correctly, he worked construction on the Texas gulf coast and so would have been sweating a lot on his gun as well.  Although he swore that he had tried multiple kinds of lube on it to stop the progression of the rust, but that it hadn't worked.  Then in typical Reddit fashion some mod started talking about how internal parts in Glocks never rust and CZ should get into the 21st century with their metallurgy or whatever.

Personally in my P-07's I have never had any rust issues at all, not in the bore, slide, frame, nowhere.  I have profusely sweated on them on some occasions, but not on a regular basis.  As mentioned, if you carry IWB in the summer heat, doing yardwork or something similar, you can expect to soak your holster and your gun.  If you are carrying in a leather or leather-backed hybrid holster, then it is also going to absorb a lot of that sweat.  I also had this issue with a Black Arch Protos-M hybrid which has a synthetic material that is supposed to wick sweat and allow it to evaporate, but still left a puddle of absorbed sweat after a day of working in the outdoor heat.  So when I carry in the heat where I will sweat profusely, I prefer to carry in a full Kydex OWB holster to avoid that.  If I was using a leather holster in those conditions I'd probably treat it with Sno Seal or Obenauf's paste to partially waterproof it with beeswax, at least on the side that was against my body.  That is still not a 100% solution though, with leather being so porous.

I don't carry my guns in a lubed condition I'd call "wet" because I don't want lube migrating out of the gun onto my clothing.  Instead what I do is clean my guns bone dry with some combination of solvents like 99.9% isopropyl alcohol, acetone, brake cleaner, electronics cleaner, canned gun scrubber, etc. depending on whether I'm strictly cleaning metal or also exposing polymer parts.  Then metal parts get treated with either Eezox or Hornady Oneshot with Dynaglide dry lube / protectant.  Then friction-bearing surfaces get a small dab of Slip 2000 EWG.  I've used a lot of different cleaners, lubes, CLP's, protectants, etc. over the years but these are what I finally settled on.  In practice, my polymer pistol frames get wiped about 90-95% clean with patch cloths and 99.9% IPA, then they get sprayed out with electronics cleaner or gun scrubber, then sprayed out again with Hornady Oneshot which leaves behind a coat of Dynaglide dry lube and protectant, then the rails, hammer / sear interface, trigger bar contact points, etc. all get a very light dab of the Slip 2000 grease applied with small foam swabs.  I don't go out of my way to lube the mag catch parts but they do get hit with the Hornady dry lube as part of the overall process.  When I have my frame detail stripped I will also remove the mag catch to clean, inspect, and re-lube the spring, pin, etc. while I'm in there.
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