# Common Sense Gun Lubrication - My Top 3 Recommendations based on Testing

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Podcast: [Major Pandemic's Bunker Bar Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/major-pandemic-s-bunker-bar-podcast-7112660)
Published: 2026-02-06T15:57:20+00:00
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## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.majorpandemic.com Firearms Lubrication Reality Check (Hydrodynamic vs Boundary vs Dry-Film, Plus Heat + Water Behavior) FireClean had its backside handed to them from a public relations perspective after the wake of what I now refer to as LubeGate 2015 . For many gun owners this was shocking news when Vuurwapenblog.com provided data indicating that a spectral analysis noted significant similarities between FireClean and canola oil — ohh no!!! What most people tend to leave off the headline is that Vuurwapenblog is the only editor which had conducted a long term one year “gumming” storage test of FireClean which the lube passed. He also went on to note that he still uses and supports the use of FireClean even after his report and published analysis. The kicker is that allegedly as of March 2016 FireClean is now suing this editor for defamation and slander — this is not the way to win hearts and make friends. What more of the republishers of the Vuurwapenblog’s analysis miss is that even if FireClean is predominantly canola oil, it’s still a legitimate gun lube , so I believe the lube has been unfairly treated by the media. After all, none of the gun lube we buy is much more than some type of basic wax, vegetable, or petroleum based lube. Not to intentionally pimp a fellow writer’s site even more, however he now has a ton of spectral analysis plus the totally moronic public relations FireClean has delivered in response to his original analysis — it’s worth a trip over there to read through his posts. Don’t take my word for it: vegetable based lubes are still awesome. A professional group of corrosion nerds called the National Association of Corrosion Engineers published a paper and study which stated: “Rec…

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