Advantages over other oils and greases:

• Softens felt recoil in semi-autos
• It's super “stringy” - it stays where you put it - forever.
• Blended with the highest-grade extreme pressure compound available.

Slide-Glide provides a dramatic improvement in lubrication compared to conventional oils and greases such as lithium, or lithium-based metallic greases containing molybdenum or graphite.

Additionally, it is engineered to have a stringy characteristic that prevents "tracking" or shearing on sliding metal surfaces. It stays put - ceaselessly dragging itself back into the friction areas of the cycling slide and barrel.

It's stringy characteristic keeps the grease between the moving parts - noticeably softening the felt recoil of semi-atuomatic pistols. Your pistol just feels “smoother” when you shoot it.

And Slide-Glide isn't just for semi-auto pistols. It slicks up revolver actions, pump and semi-automatic shotguns, semi-automatic, bolt and lever-action rifles, and even your Dillon reloading press.

With three viscosities to choose from, there is a viscosity of Slide-Glide that will reduce wear and improve the operation of any firearm, tool, or machine.

Unsolicited Reliability Endorsement

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Slide-Glide is available in three viscosities:

Slide-Glide Lite - Lightest viscosity

30+ degrees F
All Firearms:
Centerfire Pistols: Non-compensated & Compensated
Rifles: All action types (including Lever Actions)
Shotguns: All action types
Revolvers (Internal action parts only - not for the cylinder)
.22's
"Carry Guns" Applied extremely sparingly (for maximum reliability)

Slide-Glide Lite's viscosity is blended specifically for "IPSC Open guns" in any temperature, and also works great on the Glock's "connector." (More details below.)

Applications:

• 60+ degrees F
• Semi-automatic, Centerfire:
  • Pistols (non-compensated)
  • Rifles
  • Shotguns

Slide-Glide #1's standard viscosity was originally blended for "stock-type" pistols in temperatures above 60 degrees. Its viscosity is a little too thick for compensated pistols, .22's, and revolvers.

Slide-Glide #3 - Heavy viscosity

But for maximum recoil dampening - use the thickest viscosity that allows your pistol to function with 100% reliability in the temperature where you shoot.

Slide-Glide is a grease, so it will slow down your pistol's slide speed (compared to oil). For carry or duty pistols, protection from wear is not a factor - the most important thing is that it functions with 100% reliability. For these reasons, I only recommend Slide-Glide Lite in carry or duty pistols. And even it applied extremely sparingly.

BEFORE you use Slide-Glide in competition: Test the viscosity and how much you apply in the temperature where you will shoot.

Review Article:
An in-depth Slide-Glide review, by Duane Thomas and published in the United States Practical Shooting's Front Sight magazine.

I received an unsolicited call from Darwin Nercesian, who emphatically exclaimed - "You gotta be out of your mind not to be using this stuff." So there you have it.

Use just about anywhere you need the finest grease available.
(Except for human body parts, of course.)

Used and endorsed by Rob Leatham... who also especially endorses the flashing Monty Python arrows.

Note: The AR-15 cleaning brush pictured at right doesn't work quite as well as BrianEnos.com's Super-cheap brush. And thanks to Freddy Craig for the term "dedicated toothbrush."

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That's a common question, and one I can answer from a layman's perspective.

I prefer shooting guns to cleaning them. When training (Shooting Bio), I would shoot 3000+ rounds (often 5000+) between cleanings, and never observed any excess wear in the top end. In fact, once a new gun "settles in," it does not seem to wear any more at all.

When I first started testing the Glide, I wondered about the "dust factor." But after shooting tens of thousands of rounds through the same pistols lubed with the Glide - in the dusty Arizona desert - and not detecting hardly any wear at all - I stopped worrying about it.

Here's my layman's theory: The key word is "insulates." The Glide insulates everything it touches - including dust or dirt. So if there are any dirt particles in the grease, the Glide insulates them from contacting the gun. I'm not an engineer, so I know that's not very scientific. It's just my theory based on what I have observed over a long period of time.

From the Hodgdon Powder Company: Most unburned powder residues that may become visible in the grease are actually lubricating in nature (graphite), and will not adversely affect the performance of the grease. (I was sponsored by Hodgdon for several years during my professional career.)

"Slide-Glide Dirt / Sand Endorsement"

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Initially, my inspiration to develop the Glide came from an overall dissatisfaction with available oils and greases. One day, instead of the usual oil, I lubricated the “top end” (barrel, slide, frame rails, and recoil spring assembly) of my .45 with "White Grease." It sure felt slick when I cycled the slide… and when I took it to the range, for the first few shots - the gun definitely felt like it “kicked softer.” But after a couple of magazines of ammo, it felt just like it used to when lubricated with oil. I took the slide off, examined the top end, and disovered all the grease had been pushed into the tolerances of the barrel and slide. Well, so much for White Grease. But it got me thinking, so I called an old friend and shooting acquaintance, who happened to be a lubrication engineer for General Motors.

My first criteria was that the grease stayed where you put it. From the softer felt recoil I noticed when I first tried the White Grease, I knew if the grease would stay in the friction areas, the pistol would feel softer all the time. For felt recoil reduction, after testing with various viscosities, I realized the viscosity was critical: It should be heavy enough so the pistol felt as soft as possible, but not too heavy so as to cause malfunctions. After about a year of testing in my stock-type competition pistols, I was 100% satisfied with it, and decided to call it Slide-Glide #1.

I also had a couple pistols with excessively loose top ends. (150,000+ rounds of non-Glide lubrication.) Thinking a thicker viscosity would improve the softening affect on recoil, I experimented and developed a blend that was noticeably thicker than the standard viscosity. I called it Slide-Glide #3 - to imply that it was quite a bit thicker than #1, and also that you could mix #1 and #3 to blend your own viscosity that was somewhere between the two.

After selling #1 and #3 for a few years, I started getting requests to make a lighter viscosity that would allow a compensated, IPSC "Open gun" (cycles with a slower slide velocity than a stock-type pistol) to function reliably, even in colder weather. So I blended a version that was quite a bit thinner in viscosity than #1, and sent samples for competitors to test in their Open guns. When all the reports came back thumbs up - we had Slide-Glide Lite.

The Lite turned out to be a great addition to the Slide-Glide line, because its thinner viscosity allows it to be used in wider range of applications, such as .22's, revolvers, and in colder weather.

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(I received these endorsements in email.)

Unsolicited Reliability Endorsement:

I wanted to tell how well Slide-Glide Lite worked for me. I shoot an indoor bullseye league in the winter in northern Michigan. About midway through last season I started having doubling/slam fires and failure to feed issues with my Pardini GP in 22 Short. In a 60 round match, I would have 2-3 malfunctions. It got so bad I had to buy a new Pardini SP.

Fast forward to December 2007. I bought all three viscosities of Slide-Glide, but primarily it was purchased to use Slide-Glide 3 in my Glock that I shoot in local USPSA matches. I was also going to try Slide-Glide Lite in my new Pardini. It worked great in both guns.

So, to the main reason that I am writing: I was digging through my safe a couple weeks ago and found the Pardini GP that was giving me all the problems last year. I grabbed the Slide-Glide Lite, disassembled the gun (it had not been touched since last season – not even cleaned) and covered everything internally except for the trigger group. I did nothing else to the gun – no new springs, bolts, mags, buffers – nothing. So now in over 1500 rounds fired, not a single malfunction! I have won the last four matches with this gun.
Thanks for a great product.
Corey Allen

Unsolicited "Sand Endorsement":

Brian --

Experience with Slide-Glide:
I shoot an XD9. I was recently at a class outside of Laughlin, NV -- grit, dirt, sand, various reptile-type varmints, more grit, dirt & sand. One of the range sessions was a 'combattives' class which involved falling down - gun-side down - into that grit/dirt/sand.

There was sand everywhere inside the gun. Had to take it apart and field clean it just to get a new magazine to seat properly.

The Slide-Glide worked beautifully! Everyone said to use one of those 'dry lubes', 'like they use over in The Sandbox'. What I found was that the Slide-Glide trapped a lot of the grit, wiped off easily leaving a fine lubricant film so that I could shoot for the rest of the day. The areas that had Slide-Glide on them were actually easier to clean than the other parts of the gun that didn't have grit particles but had a very fine layer of dust that electrostatically stuck to EVERYTHING -- plastic & metal.

Even if my gunsmith prefers dry lube & 'Militek', I like the Slide-Glide!
Dr Fran Terry

Unsolicited Endorsement:

I bought two tubs of the Slide-Glide a few months ago, Slide-Glide #1 and Slide-Glide Lite. Here in South Dakota it's to cold to shoot outdoors now.

I have been using the Lite in my .22 for indoor shooting. It is just what I have been looking for.

I cleaned three 1911's, lubed one with grease, the 2nd with oil and the 3rd with Slide-Glide #1. With just playing with the guns, the greased ones stay sticky and the oiled one is getting dry.

Your lube is just like my grandkids, I can't talk enough about it. Everyone keeps saying that they have heard enough about the lube and kids. I am sure that it isn't going to end that easy.

Again - I really like the lube and I will throw away the box full of different lubes that I bought and collected over the past years.

Thanks again for a good lube.
Maynard Grenfield