oiling steel magizines

[edinidaho]

i have read steel mag. should be lubed? i just started using silicone spray what and how do you lube mag's?

Thanks Ed

[Slappy]

Take them apart clean them make sure things are dry put them back together and oil them. When new I clean them and oil them and leave them on a towel on a table and every time I walk by them I turn them a 1/4 turn for a couple days after that clean and oil with Hoppes or the CLP what ever it is called the red stuff!?? No problems BANG BANG!!

An add on, I run ASC mags and have had no other mags in my rifles. After a while (many rds) I clean and a little dab will do ya. Then I clean and oil like any other part of my rifle/s. BANG BANG!!

[LRRPF52]

I never apply lubricant to magazines.

Reason is that I don't want primers to get inactivated, but it would take a lot of oil to make that happen.

Quality mags are coated with a dry lubricant anyway.

The Elanders are very slick mags out of the bag.

Mil-std for M16/M4 mags is dry film lube, like the inside of the upper receiver and the receiver extension tube.