Rifle maintenance question??

[sauer 2]

Question:

i am happy about how to clean my rifle and its bore BUT i read something (shooting times i think) about the twin lugs on the end of the bolt....

 

ie that over time if they are not lubricated you get wear which increases head space and therefore a loss in accuracy due to increased "play"

 

IF so then what do or would you lubricate the locking lugs on the end of the bolt with?????? grease?, 3 in 1? silicone grease????

 

i have no idea with what to use for this job???

 

what do you guys use??

 

sauer

[Guest baldie]

WHOA!!!!! dont go anywhere near your gun with silicone grease buddy, you will destroy it, it is not for metal to metal contact under any circumstances. Regarding the bolt lugs, every time i use my gun, the bolt comes out when it goes back in the cabinet, and the bolt gets a wipe with the oily rag same as the rest of the gun, thats all the lubrication it needs.

[Guest Deerstalker]

yep same mate oil cloth and hardly any oil at that near on dry.

[Guest 6ppc]

use a very tiny amount of grease on the rear of the lugs rubbed in with a finger. then put a tiny bit on just behind the lugs on the bolt body.at the top of the bolt body and a dab in the cocking cam to stop wear.

[Guest A Sick Old Man]

To give you a rough idea on how many rounds you need to put through a rifle to make any recordable wear, I used to shoot a 7.62 bolt action rifle. I had it from new and put thousands of rounds through it, it had to go for an MOT and bloomin good service after ten years of regular use, no recordable wear could be found. you can see the scuffing and marks of wear, but they were so slight they would not effect the perfomance of the rifle. Upon test it shot an inch group at 100 meters as it did from manufacture. It was cleaned after every training session, and the only lube used was a wipe of Express gun oil, so I would not worry to much.

[sauer 2]

To give you a rough idea on how many rounds you need to put through a rifle to make any recordable wear, I used to shoot a 7.62 bolt action rifle. I had it from new and put thousands of rounds through it, it had to go for an MOT and bloomin good service after ten years of regular use, no recordable wear could be found. you can see the scuffing and marks of wear, but they were so slight they would not effect the perfomance of the rifle. Upon test it shot an inch group at 100 meters as it did from manufacture. It was cleaned after every training session, and the only lube used was a wipe of Express gun oil, so I would not worry to much.

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cheers guys rifle is fairly new so no worries there.....

was really curious but glad to know the oily rag works coz thats what i been doing so far and again taking bolt out and storing seperatly.

 

mind at rest now

thank you

sauer

[J Darcy 5,871]

its amazing just how many folk do "lube" their guns with silicone! especially airgunners, for some reason they think it had mystical properties but it is not for metal to metal parts...it works good on scopes though....

[Guest baldie]

Works good on scopes? which bit of a scope needs oil? or do you use it for cleaning?

[Guest bedlington]

Does any one decock there bolts when storeing ?

[Guest Dave]

I have inspected rifles and machine guns that I know have fired over 100K rounds and without any adjustment they are still within the tallerances for cartridge head space. The weapons I have found that fail Cartridge head space tend to be new or nearly new and have been machined both bolt and breach at the upper end of their tallerance limits thus only requiering slight wear to put them out of tallerance when married together.

 

A little rifle oil is all you need as stated by most above. Only realy nead grease to lube inaccesable areas or when you know the weapon is likely to get very wet and by that I dont mean 1 hours worth of rain then home and cleand. More along the lines of potentialy submerged in water particularly salt water ie beach assault or for our purpouses wild fouling on the foreshore.

 

Dave