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Unread 09-19-2022, 09:33 PM   #1
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I was curious if anyone has any experience using Browning Legia gun oil / spray ?

I was recently watching a cleaning tutorial by the owner of Longthorne Gunmakers and he really was going to town with it about the 6:30 mark and mentions its oiled wood finish safe.

https://youtu.be/IVnql6d97eE
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Longthorne's look pretty slick
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I would love to demo a Longthorne. They have one piece monoblock barrels and recently made a set out of titanium to test with.
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Never heard or saw of the Legia brand gun oil, but I sold a nice cased Browning A-5 Euro manufacture (e.g., sling swivels and straight stock) 12 ga. years ago that had included with the case a 5-pack of Legia rifled slugs (probably for Euro boar hunting).

They were very similar in design to the later manufactured Brenneke slugs in that the slugs had external rifling lands on the slugs themselves. Very accurate; so much so that no less than several independent reviewers recommended both Brenneke and Legia as the most accurate slugs for deer hunting out of the Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer version with iron sights and standard 26" barrel.
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Never used it, and the product seems to me to be more of a cleaner than an oil, and the gunsmith uses it as such. After liberal spraying he blows the mechanism with compressed air and wipes up what becomes visible on the exterior of the gun.

I would think that forced air would drive some of that dirty slurry further into the gun.

Although he rejects the practice of applying grease where moving parts bear on metal at one point, saying that the substance will hold particles and can become a deleterious grinding paste, later he doesn't let a "foolish consistency" keep him from applying grease to an ejector spring.

He's a professional, but some would question his saying that engine oil is as good as a gun oil, as do not engine oils have some corrosive agents to simultaneously clean and lubricate? (The interviewer does sound taken aback with what he says about the suitability of engine oil.)

Thanks for the link, and I enjoyed watching and am always interested in the subject of cleaning technique and what adherents say about their preferred products.
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