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    Frog Lube finally started gumming up on me while shooting suppressed. Now, I'm using Lucas Gun Oil to great success. Just a few drops at a time gets the job done
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    I have to suspect humidity plays a role. Markm and I both run frog lube and have never seen anything close. I can even douse handguns and AR’s with the paste and it stays put and gets perfectly wet in action. Arizona be DRY. Just a thought.
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    After years of experimenting with Slip2K EWL and EWG, SEAL1, generic CLP, and Lucas gun oils I've come to like ALG Go Juice for just about everything.

    Slip 2K EWL works great unsuppressed and I still keep a 4oz bottle of it around to loan to people at the range who can't take care of themselves.

    EWG is one of my favorites but if you don't have a syringe to apply it the whole bolt has to come out of the upper to smear it on.

    SEAL1 is a lot like Frog Lube but I've yet to have it turn sticky in any weather. It tends to burn off quickly under sustained suppressor use though.

    I really liked Lucas Extreme Duty Gun Oil when I first tried it, and I don't know if this was related to the humidity I was shooting in or not, but at the end of a range day and having expended around 350 rds I noticed the action was getting sluggish and gritty. The bolt also felt sticky to the touch.

    ALG Go Juice on the other hand has gone 800 rds over a 2 day class in a suppressed 14.5 AR and was still wet in some places. The difference was there was also no gritty or sticky residue on the bolt like others. The tail of the bolt was obviously dry after the first magazine, but the bolt lugs, bolt carrier exterior, firing pin, and cam pin all still showed signs of lubricant that stayed in place. After class ended that Sunday evening I was too beat to clean the rifle and it sat for a week before any maintenance was done on it. 5 minutes with old t-shirt scraps, a GI nylon brush, and a couple drops of Go Juice cleaned up the BCG without any scraping. I tend to neglect the carbon buildup on the tail of the bolt; however, and I've also noticed after an unknown number of rounds the carbon stops accumulating in that particular place. The rest of the upper gets doused with generic Wal-Mart brake cleaner, and the whole thing is then relubed before being stored.
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    Frog Lube is what I've been using for quite some time, but I don't run em extremely hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistWolf View Post
    Frog Lube finally started gumming up on me while shooting suppressed. Now, I'm using Lucas Gun Oil to great success. Just a few drops at a time gets the job done
    This, exactly this. I was a FrogLube user for many years but switched to Lucas Extreme Duty Gun Oil about 6 months ago because Frank Proctor recommended it and the FrogLube kept gumming up on me. The Lucas stuff lubricates MUCH better, stays put, doesn't gum up, doesn't dry out, doesn't blow off, doesn't freeze, and doesn't turn into a semi-hard paste in storage. I will say that FrogLube does a great job of keeping carbon from sticking to parts, especially chrome and NiB, so I still use it on recreational guns that don't see high round counts or longer strings of fire. But I have flipped to Lucas on all my working guns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pappabear View Post
    I have to suspect humidity plays a role. Markm and I both run frog lube and have never seen anything close. I can even douse handguns and AR’s with the paste and it stays put and gets perfectly wet in action. Arizona be DRY. Just a thought.
    Not very cold either. Frog lube will freeze solid at standard home freezer temps.

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    I've been using Fireclean on everything (including suppressed guns) for the last 18 months or so. No issues yet. Reports on the Lucas oil are intriguing, though. I may give it a try.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pappabear View Post
    I have to suspect humidity plays a role. Markm and I both run frog lube and have never seen anything close. I can even douse handguns and AR’s with the paste and it stays put and gets perfectly wet in action. Arizona be DRY. Just a thought.
    It's not very humid in Utah. Two of the weapons Froglube gummed up in were 22 LR. One was a 22 conversion kit for an AR, the other a P22. It was so bad in the P22, I thought something broke. The third and fourth were two Colt 1911s that I had not cleaned all the preservative from. One 1911 is a recent acquisition, the other I've had since the 90s and have put several thousand trouble free rounds through- until I lubed it with Froglube. The fifth was a brand new 6920. Needless to say, I have stripped down and completely cleaned all of my Colt firearms of preservative and relubed them.

    I think the problem is 22 rimfire residue and Colt preservative not playing well with Froglube.
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