I’ve used amsoil on my Barrett before, no problems, went through about 1500 rounds during a smud operation we did in EOD. SMUD is small munitions disruption. Had a squirt bottle filled with the stuff, 100% synthetic.
My personal favorites are Militech and Kroil these days in retirement....
We’re I back active duty and in beau coup pucker factor belt mode.... I’d piss on the weapon if I thought it would help....
My Ma Duce always had the big ass spray / squirt bottle , about 2 quart size, near the weapon or hanging off the vehicle mount or tripod.
That said I tend to believe some techniques used by troops are a revolving door as new and better products are always popping up and deserve to be tried and tested prior to actual combat yet in same conditions with same regional materials such as wait a minute vine and or concrete grade of fine moon dust mark one mod ohhhh dirt , mud etc...
The men should never have to discover in the field what they could have and should have been taught in training.
Doom on those who teach the book versus the real world facts...... My personal experience and opinion only.
Simple green for cosmoline and Kroil for my oil unless I’m packin my Hk 416 to reduce the troubles and toils......:o)
Hope yer well MileHi !
Stay safe...l.
When I attempt (usually unsuccessfully) to describe what a real penetrating oil like Kroil can/does do vs. what is marketed as a penetrating oil (eg, WD-40), the resistance to change is remarkable.
While the WD-40 product actually has proven to be horrible stuff to use on guns, the marketing of the damn stuff is terribly effective.
On the farm in Nevada, I learned the value of paying up for a real penetrating oil like Kroil. We’d have bolts/nuts on equipment and implements that would resist the torque of a 3/4” impact wrench - which, if you feed it enough air, can apply over 650 ft-lbs of torque.
Douse them with WD-40, wait overnight and nothing would happen.
Douse them with Kroil, go get lunch, come back and hit them with the impact... zzzzzip! Off they’d come and the threads would be wet through and through.
I can highly recommend Kroil for use in firearms, especially freeing up parts that have been corroded into place. I’ve used it to recover guns (old .22 rifles handed down and not fired or cleaned in 40+ years) that were literally rusted shut and could not be opened with a rubber mallet until the action/bolt was soaked in Kroil and allowed to set overnight. The stuff actually works as a penetrating lube. Another use for Kroil is to soak exterior rust on blued guns, then use brass wool (available from Brownells) to *softly* brush off the red rust without stripping the remaining blue.
Of course, you’d much rather never have to deal with these scenarios with active duty weapons...
Yours is the third personal BTDT recommendation for Militec-1 I’ve seen - I’ll have to get some to try it out.
Thanks. I will look into those.
I am good, hope you are the same.
Nose in the wind!