Talyn
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Cold Weather
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Emissary
It’s been -4 all day with 40+ mph winds, warmed up a bit this evening, now it’s just -3…….
RickAnderson
Custom
You shouldn't oil firing pin channels of hammer fired pistols either?
Man, I've been doing that also....
I have used TW25 on my AR-15 and Ruger 22/45 pistol. It's not valid to compare a .22lr pistol with center fire pistols, I see lots of conventional wisdom, that you should use just oil, and lightweight oil at that, on pistols. Thicker is not needed and just interferes with operation, especially cold weather.
But, .22lr is dirty, and this particular pistol would have feed/ejection issues once it got dirty. I found TW25 applied sparingly on just the contact points, kept the pistol cleaner while shooting and could go many times longer between malfunctions with grease opposed to oil.
I have tried the Lucas blue Gun Grease and it seems to work just as well.
I purchase Denatured Alcohol by the gallon, you can't beat it for cleaning and a good degreaser as well. I plan on spraying it down the striker channel of my striker pistols that I have been oiling the striker.
Well, the only problem I've had was a failure to fire in below freezing weather....
But the point is still just as valid, don't oil the striker, I've been getting away with fine in warmer weather, but cold weather, despite it being higher temp than the oil is rated for, still disabled the pistol completely.....
Can anyone HayesGreener says, you shouldn't oil the firing pin channel on Hammer Fired Pistols either? I've been doing that as well, but have yet to run into a problem, even in cold weather?
RickAnderson
Custom
I took my kids to Disneyworld in Florida during the Winter, and Florida had an unusual cold snap, it was 60°F, up to 65°F by later in the day.....
It was hysterical, how you could tell who was a northerner or southerner.... ...half the people in the park were in T-shirts and shorts and the other half plus all the staff, in winter coats....
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Bassbob
Emissary
No lube in the firing pin channel either. Hydraulic lock up is a thing.
Annihilator
Emissary
Not going to say anything, I am going to behave since its almost Christmas.....lol
Recusant
Hellcat
Back in the early 80's my parents lived in an early 1800's log house out in the western part of the state. My wife, myself and the baby went up the day after Christmas in 1981 to spend some time. The area was experiencing an extreme cold snap and the daytime temps had been in the single digits. So early one morning I took my dad's over and under shotgun out to hunt for turkeys. I climbed the ridge behind their house and was soon in the middle of woods looking for turkeys. I soon became aware of a popping sound that seemed to come from every direction. I soon realized that it was the trees making that popping sound. I'd never heard this sound coming from trees and have never heard it since, but I've since learned that what I heard was known as a frost crack. After several hours, I jumped a grouse and when I pulled the trigger on the over and under nothing happened. At that point I decided to head for the house and on the way I jumped another grouse and still the gun didn't fire when I pulled the trigger. When I got home I unloaded the shotgun as this was a standard safety practice and set it in a corner in the kitchen. Several minutes later as I was eating some lunch I heard a click followed by another click coming from the empty shotgun. Apparently the firing pins unfroze and did what firing pins do after you pull the trigger except in this case there had been a delay. If I had been careless and left the gun loaded it could have been a disaster. I've often wondered if going from a warm house to extreme cold had caused condensation to form that froze the firing pin springs, or was it a combination of frozen moisture and oil. Either way I learned a valuable lesson that day. To this day my rifle I'm going to hunt with spends the night in an unheated porch to avoid any temperature change, and since that experience years ago I've never had another problem with a frozen firing pin.
Annihilator
Emissary
I was 31 happily married raising a great family and experiencing the first freeze in S Texas since 0089 AD
HayesGreener
Ronin
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rmc51
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56 this morning, 55 now and going down. Monday back in the high 60.s, Wednesday back in the high 70's and Saturday back in the 80's, the way it should be.
No heat in the older houses. The tv remote doesn't want to work right in these temperatures. The iguanas are falling out of the trees, so they are getting to meet the Louisville Slugger. I'm thinking about going out to the shed and get my old snowmobile suit, but I don't have to shovel anything or have any heating oil/natural gas bills.
Had to put on socks and a sweat suit but I'm ok.
No heat in the older houses. The tv remote doesn't want to work right in these temperatures. The iguanas are falling out of the trees, so they are getting to meet the Louisville Slugger. I'm thinking about going out to the shed and get my old snowmobile suit, but I don't have to shovel anything or have any heating oil/natural gas bills.
Had to put on socks and a sweat suit but I'm ok.
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Keystone19250
SAINT
Agreed
Keystone19250
SAINT
I remember one of my first bird rescues in Connecticut, it was the middle of winter and a beautiful all white swan had its feet frozen into the ice on a small pond near my house. It wasn’t happy when I walked out to see what I needed to do to free it but it finally gave in and let chip at the ice. My wife had called a local vet who came to the pond, we ended up securing the bird and after it was freed the vet took it to her office for evaluation with a police escort.
The bird was released two days later with no severe injuries. The pond was that bird’s normal hangout so the owner of the land the pond was on built a floating platform for the bird to sit on.
HayesGreener
Ronin
Spoken like a true Florida transplant!
Keystone19250
SAINT
Your not honestly saying you beat on Iguanas with a baseball bat are you??
rmc51
Master Class