OTIS Dry Lube - Good for magazines?

[Unicorn01]

I'm not sure what you mean, but trust me, you won't make it to 1000 rounds without cleaning the bolt. We shoot suppressed which compounds the fouling problem. Our standard procedure is to carry an extra clean bolt. When the first bolt starts getting "sticky" at about 600-700 rounds because of the fouling, put in a clean bolt and you'll get another 500 rounds. The entire upper and both bolts will need to be cleaned thoroughly that night in the hotel room. Spraying the action with brake cleaner followed with WD-40 will help you get to the 600-700 rounds. If you do nothing to remove the fouling, 500 rounds is about the limit of trouble-free cycling.

It makes me laugh when I see people online bragging about shooting thousands of rounds through a direct impingement AR without cleaning the action and say, "I had zero problems". That's complete nonsense and it didn't happen.

1. The AR15 is not direct impingement. The "bolt tail," is the piston and the bolt carrier is the cylinder.

2. Yes you can easily get to 1000 rounds without cleaning. As long as you keep it lubed.
Years ago, my platoon, minus the Bradley crews, had to fire about 1500 rounds each because someone opened every crate at the range one day. And it's so much easier to just shoot it off and turn in expended brass than to spend hours counting every live round once the seal was broken. Those who kept dumping in CLP kept firing.
Yes silencers (don't even start, if Hiram Maxim can call it that, and file his patent calling it a silencer, then it's a bloody silencer) do make it worse

Maybe try something better than WD-40.

By the old methid, I mean people thinking that you need to have almost no oil in dusty or dirty places like the desert. 20 years of war in deserts finally proved that to be wrong.

 

[wwillson]

1. The AR15 is not direct impingement. The "bolt tail," is the piston and the bolt carrier is the cylinder.

Yes, you are correct. I was speaking in general terms because most AR-15s are direct impingement, while some custom AR-15s are gas piston operated.

2. Yes you can easily get to 1000 rounds without cleaning. As long as you keep it lubed.

Sure, but that's not what I'm saying. What I said was I laugh at people who post on the internet that they ran thousands of rounds without cleaning or lubing their AR-15. That's not possible.

Keep in mind the lubing is cleaning in a way. The lube will carry some powder residue away from the action, which is effectively cleaning.