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Surely the bolt lugs are self lubing, whatever liquid you pout down the barrel for cleaning usually mixes with the fouling in the receiver ring to form a slurry that is impossible to remove so obviously the ring is designed to keep the stuff there and the bolt lugs just ride happily on this.

Of course with an Enfield action you don't have the bolt lugs in the receiver problem and normal after cleaning lubing works just fine with them.

WD40 + 3 weeks = Varnish! - for use on cars in a garage, not guns in an armoury. aaarggh

I have never had a bolt with varnish on it.

Mil-Comm TW-25B - it is all I have used for many years and seems to last forever.

Ovenpaa wrote:Mil-Comm TW-25B - it is all I have used for many years and seems to last forever.

+1 for that.

The other lube I've started using is Ballistol which seems good so far and also give my stocks a nice shine as well.

Alpha1 wrote:Froglube from Lantac is the nearest you will get to it.

On the us forums I use they have put this stuff through a spectrometer and iirc its just coconut oil alledgedly

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016 ... not-frogs/

Any decent grease is better than nothing. Products like Froglube are more geared to lubing semi-autos.

We're simply talking about two steel surfaces (bolt and action lugs) in hard contact - after being subjected to 50,000psi during the firing process.

Ovenpaa's suggestion is as good as it gets.

Would you run your car engine without oil? Never run a dry bolt.

Ill stick to my WD 40.

Safariland Break Free CLP, put a very small drop on my finger and rub all over the bolt/lugs to give a very fine coating.

If using a wet grease is going to make it look bad, catch dirt etc. Why not use a dry grease such as graphite? Literally just draw on it with a pencil. It's a great lubricator as it's essentially carbon, which is a self lubricator aswell!