Good idea Muttly, I want to try that. Even a good semiauto pistol needs all the help it can get in the reliability department IMHO.
But it's only natural for me to think that way since I'm a revolver man at heart. My old S&W model 10 has been with me almost as long as I can remember, and it has never once failed to function perfectly in all the many thousands of rounds of handloads and factory ammo I've run through it. I have owned a lot of semiauto pistols and fired thousands of rounds through them also, and I can't say that about any of them.
Glad to be of some assistance!
I simply concluded that the binding of metal on metal of the ctg. rim on the breechface would be lessened if the gunmetal were very slick. Militec-1 works on plating too and is just the thing on Stainless Steel, which has very large pores which cause a LOT of friction. Amazing stuff. The ultimate DRY lubricant, because it can be removed completely, once it has hardened the metal, which then needs little or no additional lubricant. I use it in car/truck engines too.
The Model 10 is great. I have read that in the entire history of the NYPD a revolver has NEVER failed to fire. If you are familiar with the condition of some officers' handguns through the years there, it is an incredible statement. Even if a round fails to fire, just squeeze again. I have known several LE armorers who refused to recommend a d.a. semiauto pistol that does not have "second strike" ability, since most failures are attributable to dirt around the firing pin, and a second hit usually clears it, avoiding the tap-rack-bang proceedure, which briefly disables the gun.
A NY detective I knew was devoted to his M10, especially because of the thick trigger guard, which may stand up to the time-honored and sometimes last ditch "Buffalo" technique....hitting the subject over the head with it. He cringed at the prospect of having a Mod. 36 in hand. He had one jam in this way once, during a rooftop situation. It disabled the still loaded gun, an M10. How inconvenient. He did of course reiterate the SOP advice to never, ever, if it can be avoided at all, hit sideways against the cylinder, but always straight down, on the barrel and cylinder pin shroud. This was always a weak point of several Colt revolvers, which have unshrouded pins.
May this information always be theory for you...that you never have to recall it, or test it yourself.