Why Is 3 In 1 Oil Used For Cleaning Rifles?

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So a buddy and I were hunting when information technology started raining. Both guns got decently wet by the end of the day. Nosotros of form wiped them off and oiled them. Still, he only had and always uses 3 in 1 oil on his guns. I've been using Remington Oil on mine prior to this. Is the 3 in 1 oil fine to use or should I use Remington oil too?
3 in 1 will run nearly guns but fine, but if you lot accept remington oil, break free clp, etc. i'd just employ a production similar that over 3 in 1.
I didn't make clean within the gun or anything with it I just wiped down the outside as that'due south all that got wet to my knowledge unless some somehow made it downwards the barrel when I was carrying it. Anyway, and so should this exist fine until my next cleaning which will probably exist in a calendar week or ii? I don't have the Remington Oil with me then would take to go buy some if I used it now. I used to clean my gun fully afterwards every hunt but I realized it'due south no point in me cleaning it 2-3 times a week so I'm going to attempt and just clean it two or 3 times during the whole hunting season. Or is that a horrible thought?
I'd really pick up something better than Remoil.
3 in one oil will exercise the chore, but near anything else is better. Information technology is an "if information technology's all you got, by all ways run it until yous can get something ameliorate" kind of bargain.

I don't forsee any problem in not doing a total cleaning after every hunting trip, but you exercise need to keep everything wiped down/lubed and make sure you aren't caking dirt in places and whatnot. Cleaning the bore is not strictly necessary, but you may want to run an oiled patch or boresnake down information technology for actress insurance.
Annihilation is better than goose egg initially, but for bodily rust prevention in storage CLP is difficult to beat out, especially if you factor in price.
My grandpa used 3in1 oil on everything and merely about everything had surface rust. He never cared about the cosmetics as long every bit it worked.

--wally.
I conducted a rust test of nails in seawater. The nail coated in 3 in one oil rusted faster than the uncoated smash.
3 in ane oil is just an oil that comes in a shiny tin can with a blaring label. You don't know what tests the oil will pass, you lot don't know what is in the oil. As far as we know information technology could exist straight mineral oil. No additives.

The kickoff choice on oils are oils that have to come across a specification. The military buys oils through specifications and the vendor is at risk if the production does non meet the specification. These oils are the get-go pick. The second choice are oils that have to meet manufacture specifications. Industry specifications are totally voluntary. No one inspects compliance and in that location is little to no liability to the manufacturer if the product does not run into the spec. However putting a substandard production out volition alienate customers, so there is an incentive to keep to spec. The last choice are cans with clarion labels. It could be proficient, or it could exist all label and high price. You lot don't know.
Works great to fry catfish in; kills the taste!!!!!!!!!!!
In my stance three in 1 oil is the best there is. I have a can of it in my garage. I believe that if I were to employ it on a firearm, it would probably vanquish all the other products combined. I am basing this on the fact that the tin has been in my garage since 1959 or thereabouts, and the inside of the can is bright and shiny. A stark contrast to the exterior of the can listen you. Given that the entirety of the tin can has endured identical ecology weather since the Eisenhower assistants, and since the just difference benefitting the within of the can is the presence of the oil, one can only come to a positive conclusion. No one here tin say the same for CLP for case. Stick with a winner.
"Gun oil" is supposed to be refined and long lasting, less likely to oxidize and make a varnish like some oils, or thicken into a sludge similar WD-40. I distinctly recollect having to detail strip an former Southward&West M36 Main Special revolver and utilize #9 and a razor blade to shave off hard brownish varnish looking gunk that was leaving the hammer in cocked position after I pulled the trigger. It had been oiled and put up for a decade.
I accept used 3-in-one on hinges, bicycle chains then on. I use specific "gun oil" to lubricate firearms. I accept fifty-fifty used WD40 as a gun cleaner if I tin can wipe the parts clean. I take used iii-in-1 or automotive oil if that's all I accept. Gun oil is just less likely than the others to gum upwardly over time.
Huh? iii in ane has the most tedious label on globe and I just see information technology in white plastic bottles in wal mart.
In my feel, 3 in 1 oil "evaporates" only as fast as other oils. The main rule all the same applies: if your gun is in a moist climate, oil information technology at least one time a calendar month.
I used 3 in ane oil on my AK the other day considering information technology was all I had. We ran a case of 500 rounds thorugh the gun with 3n1 oil and information technology never got sludged up, never caused the weapon to fail and the gun got so hot that the edges of the wood were beginning to plough black and the 3n1 held strong. Ill use it again if I have to.
Wow, that's gun corruption. Get another AK and alternating adjacent time.
personal experience: 3-in-ane and/or remoil work fine for spot lubrication, but are next to useless for rust prevention.
It will work but there are many other better products out there.
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Concluding I heard 3in1 is owned by WD40, I won't use either !! I don't know nigh changes simply 3in1 used to be the worst thing y'all could utilise in guns or anything else ! It had no anti-oxident so would apace form a varnish that would jam a gun. I repaired many a gun that didn't work just considering of the 3in1.
If you don't want to use proper gun oil then use Mobil 1 .FBI did tests with diverse lubes and Mobil ane worked very well.I've used Mobil DTE which is a turbine oil and that works very well also.
I found this test when doing a quick search. http://www.thegunzone.com/rust.html
CLP has always worked for me so I'm not surprised that the experiment found the same result.
Woa, I'd like to hear from a second source on that. If that's true I would definitely end using 3 in i.
Ye Gods! More proof that a Snipe will swallow Anything!
I use 3in1 on the 1911 and information technology seems fine.

WD-forty is NOT a lubricant. Its job is to displace wet it also attracts dust and other gunk.
I wouldn't. Guns are expensive, and I would not inexpensive out on a few bucks for existent gun oil.
Pure whale oil is probably meliorate though illegal.
Nonetheless, stick to the commercial stuff or something petroleum based.
It says information technology is
Snipe flavor is coming upward isnt information technology, better to get some hockey sticks and trash bags to grab some with. I missed out final year.
Ive heard of several people using 3 in 1, merely like nigh others have said - If an actual gun oil is commercially bachelor around you stick with that.
Among the things I have picked up through estate sales etc. is a jar marked Sperm whale oil/ turbine oil. The guy I got information technology from used information technology on his flintlocks, and wheellocks. Have used this for all my 'locker queens' for a preservitive information technology'due south great. For an Auto it tends to plow gummy. Virtually organic oils, Whale, sweet oil [olive] etc. tend to mucilage upward when mixed with soot, and powder residue then heated. Stick to distilled or 'petro' type oils for most modern guns.
Janedoedad: In Idaho fishermen trolling for trout in Mackay Reservoir use WD-40 to spray on their allurement after prepping their trolling rig, fish like it and it kills the smell of Humanity. I don't eat catfish, I use the oil for gravy on grits.
WD 40 and 3 in 1 suck on bicycles as well equally guns.