Amsoil Firearm Lubricant and Protectant

Figured this would eventually happen.

Yeah, I've purchased the Lucas brand gun oil before.

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Extra money for hype and zero real gain compared to hundreds of products already out there.

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Do you recommend a CLP?

I use 4 things: Hoppes #9, BreakFree CLP, Montana copper solvent, and M1 moly grease (only for my M1 Garand and M1A). Hoppes does the bulk of the residue cleaning, CLP handles oil lubrication and long term storage/residual cleaning, copper solvent is only for occasional deep bore cleaning and new bores before first range outing, grease is because that's the original spec for the old battle rifles and there is a lot of exposed sliding surfaces on those two rifles where a grease does a better job of holding up.

The military spec'd CLP does both. Handles nearly daily use by instructors and is well suited for the bulk of military small arms that get used/cleaned once or twice a year and spend months in the arms vault only to be counted on monthly sensitive item inventories. I run a slightly damp patch of CLP down the bores of my firearms every month or two, always have a little more residue come off because the solvent in CLP works slowly by design.

Had a can of this given to me a while back. I haven't used it yet.

Pretty much any petrochemical will pentrate down into the metal given enough time. Propellant residues are fairly soluble in petroleum solvents so the only difference is how much time you want the solvent to take. Pure solvents like Hoppes do a very quick job but flash off so they don't have time to really penetrate into the pores of the metal. CLP has a low solvent carrier but enough to hang around and keep working for months. Most gun oils provide a film barrier while better ones have some metallic EP additives that provide limited protection if the oil has been mostly wiped away. Vast majority of firearms simply don't need much from lubricants and that's why there is so little difference between all of these wonder oils in practical terms.

I wipe the rails on my 1911 and 92 FS with just a slight film of oil. Provides enough lubrication without capturing crud. Same with my ARs and A400, just a little bit goes a long way. My M1's get just the slightest film of grease, there's enough moly in that stuff to provide plenty of wear protection. My bolt action rifles are run virtually dry, maybe a q-tip of CLP on the bolt ways inside the receivers.

I tried Ballistol, found all it really did well was as something to hose down the bore of my old Yugo Mauser when using corrosive ammo. It took care of gummy labels too.