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Put a single drop of oil into the cocked action. Resist the urge to over-oil!

Occasionally place a drop or two of oil on each side of hammer, allow to run down into action.

About lubricants

There is more snake oil sold in the gun industry than was ever peddled in the wild west. The advertising hype is so overblown that you wonder how firearms even existed before the wonder lubes ever made it to market. All claim to protect your gun and make it operate under the most extreme conditions, conditions that ‘normal’ lubricants just can’t handle.

Here’s the reality: revolvers don’t make a lot of demands on lubricants, and it’s not necessary to have some wonder oil to make your wheelgun operate. No revolver operates under any sort of conditions so extreme that they would cause a lubricant to fail. Revolvers don’t subject their moving parts to an excessive amount of heat, none of the parts operates at high speeds, and none are subjected to huge wear-inducing frictional loads.

Much as it might cut into oil sales, it must be pointed out that you’d have no problem finding any number of perfectly functional old revolvers that have received nothing more than an occasional squirt of ‘3-in-1’ oil during their lives. Careful selection of the type of lubricant, however, can make a difference in how the gun feels and possibly how much maintenance it requires over its lifetime.