It's surprising how intuitive this should be, and yet, how much of a surprise it comes as to so many shooters. The M1/M1A crowd has long touted the benefits of high-temperature wheel bearing grease, so the concept wasn't a foreign one to me; that said, we have so many manufacturers offering such a wide variety of purpose-built arms lubricants (in ever-smaller bottles commanding ever-larger prices) that it seems almost unthinkable to consider that a simple synthetic motor oil could do very much the same thing -- at a fraction of a fraction of the price, by volume. That would have eventually occurred to most of us as a field expedient, but in reality, it's not that much of a second-rate solution, after all.
Live and learn, I guess. I've had good results in the past with turbine engine synthetics (we have to discard whatever doesn't go into the aircraft once a can is opened), but I think the overriding point here is the same as it always was: use whatever you like (uh, within some semblance of reason), but use something.
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Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. -- Captain John Parker, Lexington, 1775.
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