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Synthetic Brake Parts grease for guns?

I run Mobil 1 synthetic grease on select parts of my M1 and M1a's. Garand Gear recommends it and sells small vials but can just buy a tub as well. I also have Lubriplate.
 
OmOpLaTa said:
Why shouldn't I grease the buffer and buffer spring? I usually just put a small amount of grease on both. I saw the MidwayUSA guy do it.
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It collects dirt and has no other actual benefit.
The buffer and spring are very loose inside the buffer tube.
If you are trying to dampen the noise, it really does not do that very well.
A dry buffer and spring are better as you don't get greasy hands when you are working on the gun.
You need to embrace the sproing.
You only hear the sproing when the gun is empty.
The noise of firing masks the sproing during live fire.
In actual use, you will LEARN that the sproing means you need to reload.
 
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OmOpLaTa said:
Why shouldn't I grease the buffer and buffer spring? I usually just put a small amount of grease on both. I saw the MidwayUSA guy do it.
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Because everyone acts like you gotta do it like the military does it which makes perfect sense because lord knows we are all gonna be charging through desert conditions doing "I'm up he sees me I'm down" and getting our guns caked full of sand and stuff while we eat cold MREs with little time to do weapons maintenance because we are so busy doing tier 1 operator stuff.

Grease that thing up to your heart's content. Ain't gonna hurt nuthin'.

Personally I give mine a light coat of CLP... cuz it's metal and I think everything that is metal should have some form of corrosion protection on it.
 
Doesn't seem bad. I've been experimenting with marine grease for kicks and giggles and so far so good.

A lot of firearms greases are actually just automotive greases so I don't see any reason why you can't use it other than reacting with polymers.
 
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