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Giacomo Arrighini the famed Perazzi gunsmith that came over from Italy in the early 70's to work at the Ithaca factory on Perazzi's swears by Triflow. And it is what I have used since the 70's on all of my guns. His son in law has taken over the business now and IIRC he recommends Slip 2000. Neither of them use grease no what the guys in Italy say. Either way I feel it is most important to keep it clean. Wipe the old off, whatever you use, and apply new often. Here is just one thread on TS.com from 10 years ago where an Australian has his MX2000 gall and he used Perazzi grease. Notice that pretty much all the American shooters told him that Giacomo recommended nothing but TriFlow. Link My JEG target gun has more than 100K rounds through it. Triflow has worked well for me
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I daresay you clean and re-lube after every use, Cold Iron. JR
Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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Been dipping my pinkie into the same tin of RIG for ages.
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Grease prevents grit from entering bearing surfaces. But not forever. I clean and re-grease my clays gun's bearing surfaces 4-5 times year with no appreciable wear for many, many years, and I shoot in fairly dusty conditions in hot summers here in Dixie. Bores are cleaned many more.
An oil like Tri-Flow is a super lubricant, but it will not block grit. JR
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Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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I use K-gun grease on my hing pins/trunions and WD 40 on the outside for a rust prevenive. I wipe the old off after every trip to the range and wipe the outside at the same time. Last weekend this was 500 shotshells in the heat and humidity of LA. After 30 years of this no rust or abnormal wear.
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Storing SxS's up or down...
They were originally intended to be stored flat in their fitted case.
Flip a coin you want oil in the butt stock or oil in the forearm wood.
Once when I was hunting I noticed my hinge pin was pitifully dry....Me had no earl or greese on me.
I was out of water I and didn't want to take a wizz on me hinge pin...To save me gun I just hockered up a big ol'lou'e spat in her me hand and rubbed her on me pin.
As far as what lube on the hinge pin...Joe do you really think it matters.
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G I've seen galling on the knuckle from poor lubrication, and I don't trust oil there.
SRH Dang it...photos please.
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Shockingly, the 'problem' of oil running into the head of the stock can be eliminated by (drum roll) not using oil.
So, yes, it does matter.
Hint: if you use one of the red grease products and you can actually see the color when applied, you used too much grease.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I stopped using oil on the hinge pin's of guns many years ago in favor of grease. Now here in Brit land the rusting country of the world because of its Maritime climate and salt in the air, well we all live not much more than seventy miles from the sea. Because of the damp atmosphere and the high rain fall oil as we all know floats on water and can turn to an emulsion with it, we have all seen those iridescent pools of water caused by floating oil. So grease won out over oil, but over the years I have tried automotive types and some other specialized greases and finally decided on just one, after I found out it was specified for use on deck equipment on our north sea oil rigs and was given a cartridge. I have mentioned this grease before in a posting even though it is manufactured on your side of the pond you folks could not find it. The grease is manufactured by Lucas Oil Products Inc. www.LucasOil.com. It is called RED"N"TACKY and it is all of those things, it clings well and does not become miscible with water at all and best of all it stays where you put it. I have posted photograph of the cartridge, I do highly recommend it's use on gun's because I have not as yet found any grease that will out perform it. Thought I had better add a photograph of the back of the cartridge.
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We use marine grade red grease for all our lubing on the farm, maybe $2 or $3 more a tube that black grease. It is made for displacing water--recommended for boat trailers and such. I just keep an old plumbers silicone plastic container full. I drilled/tapped and added zirk fittings on all my graded guns just for safety!
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