Reeder Custom Guns - another cold gun.

A lady just came in the store and said her 38 S&W model 36 would not fire. I took the gun and it was cold as ice. It was 9 degrees here this morning and she had kept it in her car overnight and had a CCW course this morning. It wouldn't fire half the ammo. I checked it and it was full of congealed grease and some thick oil. Cleaned it out and it shot fine. She said her friends told her to oil it up good before the course to be sure it would work.

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quickly turned into a grinding compound and could easily and quickly ruin the internals in a good firearm.

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I was always led to believe your supposed to put a drop of oil but not a a lot on the front of the cylinder of the bigger caliber revolvers to keep from battering and banging during heavy recoil like the Casull and Linebaugh rounds have.

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hits the front of the frame, any oil that is between them gets squeezed out.

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I have a .475 that John Linebaugh built and he sent a note with it saying to put oil on it so I usually do I figured it couldn't hurt anything to do it.

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another cold gun.

I grew up in dusty country. We did not oil our guns.

yep, that oil plus the dust and sand in the air

oil

you can but the first time the boss of the cylinder

oil