Gun Grease on Pistol Rails
Updated: Sep 29
As important as gun oil or lubricant is, gun grease is virtually essential for critical high-wear gun parts that are most vulnerable to friction. The most obvious application point on semiautomatic pistols are the rails, followed by the connector, pins, the hood of the barrel, sear, lugs, slide and even the trigger.
Unlike CLP oil, which you want to polish on until it's no longer wet, you should see a good gloss of grease on those key lube points, but not so much as to see the color of it. It's like car wax, you don't want the initial heavy haze, just the final shiny polish if not a bit more. The real magic occurs where you can't see it, down into the substrate of the gunmetal. Trust it. Not any grease, just ours.
This Glock featured here and any handgun will appreciate what you are doing. You will literally feel the difference.
Tetra Gun Grease, original white synthetic fluoropolymer formula or the new premium level Obex Prime material. Either way, you will get the results your semiauto needs for a long and happy life.
Oil does not hold up to heavy wear without allowing for friction and high shear wear which directly contributes to wearing down gunmetal parts.
Grease provides the material body to withstand high wear contact on specific parts.
Gun Oil is a low viscosity material, which means it can migrate easily, especially when a firearm heats up or simply due to gravity which you notice when you over do it.
Grease is the word.
Oil is wonderful for non-critical parts other than inside the bore surface, but it simply doesn't offer enough of a barrier between to metal surfaces. That is why Tetra Gun thrives with its fluoropolymer particle that acts as that protective buffer. It's kind of like seeing balloons get pressed when you push down on them. It gives under pressure, but unlike a balloon, PTFE particles won't pop.
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