Quick Tip: Basic Rifle Maintenance

[@SchooloftheAmericanRifle]

Great video fellas. I love both of these dudes.

[@mr.b3132]

I learn alot from these videos....Also from your videos SOTAM....

[@TerminalM193]

Hello my fellow Marylander! Love your class and I recommend it to everyone willing to listen!

[@SchooloftheAmericanRifle]

​@@TerminalM193thank you

[@SchooloftheAmericanRifle]

​@@mr.b3132thank you.

[@Copenhagen848]

The SOLGW podcast you were on with them recently was fantastic - so much great info from you and the boys in that episode 👍🏻

[@Hoodlum3621]

Experienced AR guy here and I definitely learned something. I didn't know about the gas ring test. Thanks!

[@settlesmachiningtools8671]

James Yeager said that it’s bs that it will still work if it does that it can even work with one gas ring idk though

[@Hoodlum3621]

@@settlesmachiningtools8671 I'm sure it would work. But probably less proficient with allowing excess gas blow by. But I had never heard of a way to test the rings. At least this is some way.

[@Rubeless]

Experience from what? PlayStation? That’s something any boot knows about the rings.

[@Hoodlum3621]

@@Rubeless they never taught me this when I was a boot. But thanks for being degrading I guess?

[@KeepTheGates]

Two of the best dudes in the industry.

[@JohnJones-op8uf]

😂 you need to reevaluate your standards!

[@hairydogstail]

No he doesn't..@@JohnJones-op8uf

[@Rubeless]

Goober stuck in the 40s and the guy from the hangover

[@KeepTheGates]

@@JohnJones-op8uf you a hickok d1ck rider?

[@hairydogstail]

True, they are stuck in the 40's since they don't get confused with which bathroom to use or think socialism/communism works lol..@@Rubeless

[@PupsPistols]

Great video 😎👍🏻 Keep spreading the good word 🔥🔫🥊 appreciate the supportive content

[@ryand8024]

Sons of liberty gun works, one of my faves. Putting together one of their uppers now.

[@georgepeacock2837]

Love that tiger stripe look!

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

Man, I wanted that buffer & spring to launch out of Caleb's hands! Free at last! Haha. Great vid guys.

[@davidunderwood3605]

What Mike said about barrels with rifling gone most the way up and still shoot. How true. Just look at that British 303 #4. I've seen some barrels that were in the wall hangers division and still shoot good groups at 100 to 200 yards. Nothing fantastic but good enough to feed a person and family. Not to mention the chamber on many so large reloading it is pushing the envelope. But they shoot good never the less. And now with modern steels and manufacturing it just gets better. Thank you for the video.

[@martymonaco1255]

Good stuff!! Especially about cleaning the barrel every time (guilty, here). I'm a bit of a nut job about cleaning my gear. Maybe I need to chill a bit.

[@davet262]

First I ever heard of this. I try to run the boresnake through the barrel after every range trip. Guess I can cut back some lol

[@ThePaulAllen]

I haven’t cleaned my guns in years 😂😂😂😂

[@Rubeless]

Nothing wrong with cleaning your weapons. Do they need it? No, but I like mine ready to go as hard as needed, that means clean and lubed. As far as doing harm, how can cleaning do more damage than sending rounds through the barrel at high rates(which I rarely do).

[@ThePaulAllen]

@@Rubeless guns arent meant to be cleaned

[@A_Brit]

I don't know that I needed this, but I am here to support Caleb and brownells.

[@TerminalM193]

I've always been told to run a lightly oil patch down the barrel after it's cleaned, never heard anyone advise against it before.

[@Rubeless]

Last patch should be a dry patch.

[@woodsghost9088]

Thank you for putting this stuff out. I've learned a lot from y'all and spent what is, for me, a lot of money with y'all. You have had consistently good products.

[@brodyscarlett5527]

One of the most knowledgeable guys in the industry. Great video

[@brianleabo6295]

Lube is your friend! I use it to relax. It's fun

[@johnchamberlain1589]

I built a 12.5 SOLGW and have over 8k rounds. Gas rings are still fine after a lot of classes and hard use.

[@ETHRON1]

On barrel life..."most" people will never see the end of the barrel life🤔😏..unless something seriously goes wrong😮...most people.

[@Redsox247]

I have an SOL rifle and I love it , thanks for the tips and info .

[@FuzzyMarineVet]

Watching you handle that bolt carrier gives me flashbacks.

[@82lowe36id]

Good stuff and great info.

[@glocktown21]

These videos are so helpful!!!!!!!! THANKS MEN!!!!!

[@3dtexan890]

When you measure the buffer spring do you measure with the buffer in or out?

[@brownells]

Out

[@davidmalinowitz9033]

Thanks for the helpful input 👍

[@oldschooljack3479]

I run my BCG pretty wet with CLP... It seems to hold the carbon in suspension. It makes a mess, but its an easy mess to wipe away... No scraping fouling off.

[@ETHRON1]

I fully admit to being OCD about cleaning my guns...something our Sgt drilled 😄 into our heads..."A clean rifle can save your butt when you need it"...well sorry Sarg...now I only do it if I shoot cheap ammo or once a year which ever comes first..

[@ETHRON1]

I do occasionally drop a little lube and run the action if it hasn't seen the range in a while.

[@msquared9605]

When it comes to the gas ring test by standing the bolt up, does that apply to an AR10 bcg as well? I’ve noticed it collapses under its own weight but assumed it’s because of the higher weight of a 308 bcg, and I haven’t had any cycling issues with it

[@MickeyD2012]

Yes, the design of the AR-10 is mechanically virtually identical to the AR-15. You should replace your gas rings. AR-10 style rifles often have little things that need work because they haven't had the same amount of development as the AR-15 family.

[@msquared9605]

@@MickeyD2012 so worn out gas rings should roughly equate to undergassed right? I would assume they would allow gas to leak out. But in my gun, I typically have overgassed ejection with 308 ammo and perfect ejection with 7.62 ammo

[@TerminalM193]

Mike - what's your favorite lubricant for the AR platform rifle?

[@Rubeless]

It doesn’t matter, any high quality product will be fine. Is mobile so much more superior to castrol? What’s important is using it.

[@TerminalM193]

@@Rubeless mil-comm grease?

[@TMFShooting]

Great Stuff 💯 Thank you 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@dalemanley9662]

All i ever use is a light film of mineral oil on my AR bolts easy to clean and runs smooth

[@Beanmachine9198]

Good stuff

[@mrshort2379]

When Mike from "SOLGW" speaks everybody listens

[@manbob15]

Still waiting on what hair Gel they use

[@BillyBOB-sm3rl]

We used graphite in the desert. Hopps number 9 everywhere else. I don't kniw what they use up north. The Russians in ww2 would put a touch of kerosene in their oil. To keep it from freezing.

[@OutlawJohnny]

Great information!

[@Matt_justlikethat]

How about cleaning up the chamber where the lugs seat

[@oklahomahank2378]

There are special tools,for,that.

[@Matt_justlikethat]

@@oklahomahank2378 I’m talking about using a chamber brush. Thanks

[@Matt_justlikethat]

@@oklahomahank2378 Yes I have one with the handle…👍👍

[@CatProvider]

Is running Balistol down the bore with a snake bad?

[@nunyabiznes32]

This is the way

[@oklahomahank2378]

Just make sure the snake is clean. I like Ballistol. Run a dry snake or patches afterwards, you don’t really want lube in there unless you are storing it.

[@Rubeless]

Any lube left in the barrel will be gone after the first shot. Makes it dirtier as well.

[@theaccount628]

Chamber brush is often overlooked - shooters are usually focused on boresnakes and carbon-scrapers.

[@krisgross916]

Agree with that lol just clean 10 ars this weekend all needing a chamber cleaning and after that 3 of them no longer had feeding issues

[@teamja1088]

A wet BCG flies in the face of everything we were taught in the Corps. Only now, decades later, I wonder if running our A2’s with only one atom thick of oil was the Marine way to get new rifles? After all, if running them wet as recommended here would extend their life, we would never get new pews right?

[@timriley302]

I am a firm believer if a rifle sits in the safe for extended periods of time a little lube of the bore cannot hurt as some of us don't get to exercise our weapons as often as we would like to.

[@Rubeless]

Nothing wrong with that.

[@ImmaSaveUFromMe]

Same tests for an ar10? I had an ar10 bolt that the gas rings wouldnt support the weight of the carrier right out of the box.

[@ImmaSaveUFromMe]

Rifle still ejecting at 3-330

[@Rubeless]

The original daniel defense dd5 had a bolt like that. Check everything at 5000rd intervals

[@timothycody2270]

When I was in the army we always had to keep everything dry as could be. I always wondered why. When we'd go to the range, almost every malfunction was cured with lube. Seemed kind of Schizophrenic.

[@LRRPFco52]

What they failed to explain to us was that the armorers gauges need a stripped clean weapon, or else they will get false readings and accelerated wear on the gauges.

[@timothycody2270]

Thanks man.

[@PAIsIllegal]

If I grew up In PA, I'm a Pennsylvanian.

[@Rubeless]

Go fetterman

[@briankoenig8923]

My AR BCGs love 5W-30 Full Synthetic!

[@Rubeless]

Sand and anything else will too.

[@KeepTheGates]

​@@RubelessThey'll push through sand with enough lube. Running AR's dry is dumb.

[@Jordan-ql6tm]

Honest question here, so every video I watch of Sons of Liberty the guys are fantastic and they sound great. But when I go on forums the company seems to catch a lot of flack but no one really specifies why they don't like Sons of Liberty. But trolls on the Forum will troll LOL can someone please clarify this weird phenomenon? Thank you

[@krisgross916]

Trolls, as someone that works in the industry I can tell you there stuff is top quality and there warranty is great.

[@SchooloftheAmericanRifle]

Why do people give SOLGW crap? Because they are ignorant miserable people.

[@Rubeless]

Their not there. They make good products.

[@houseoflamarr3674]

good

[@Division_Agent_]

What about tilting bolt maintenance? Had my rifle sitting in the safe drenched in red Molly grease & royal purple motor oil. Keeps the rust/corrosion off

[@Rubeless]

Why would it rust? Is it bare metal? It’s aluminum and the barrel is lined.

[@Division_Agent_]

@@Rubeless No my rifle steel on it. two thick pieces to protect my face just in case of a catastrophic failure inside the chamber. There's also steel pieces and screws and aluminum throughout the rifle.

[@joshmclam4912]

Caleb needs a 🦆patch on that safe in camera view lol

[@justcallmejoeable]

It wasn't until some time after getting out of the army that I was told you don't need to pick, scrub, wipe, swab, etc. after so much as 1 round is fired. Anyone who has been in the military will probably tell you that there are days where you and your platoon will just clean weapons ALL day. Come to find out you're probably doing more harm than good for those rifles.

[@chrisshumake83]

👍 👍

[@AKITM]

Hey where's Steve been? Is he ok?

[@brownells]

Steve's doing great, he was in a video earlier this week.

[@Vuntermonkey]

Steve confirmed dead. He's been rendered into hair oil already.

[@AKITM]

@@Vuntermonkey Ahh good! I must have missed that one.

[@AKITM]

@@Vuntermonkey 🤣

[@waymorhd]

By the thumbnail who else thought that was Jelly Roll ?

[@siniquezu]

I thought Steve looked different

[@fujimi715]

I know you said dont base on round count, but i think alot of people wanna know a basic estimate/info from your time in the military what round count yall used for maintenance cycles such as replacing the springs, extractor ejector, bolt, bolt carrier ect. Its hard to find good info and believe it or not there are more and more people keeping a true accurate round count of their primary weapons.

[@Rubeless]

Check all at 7500 rd intervals.

[@bluelightning414]

AR’s generally run better with generous amount of lube in the action. After cleaning the weapon I always put a few drops along the top and sides of chamber then a generous amount on the bcg along with the charging handle. Smooth as butter

[@Rubeless]

All the extra lube isn’t needed. It’s like touching sand with tanning oil on your hand, hands covered with sand. Heat is generated by the explosion not friction.

[@SchooloftheAmericanRifle]

​@@Rubelessnope.

[@hairydogstail]

Lube will carry that sand away unlike a dry rifle..Lube the rifle..@@Rubeless

[@BlownF150]

They don't run better. All you are doing is wasting oil, masking potential issues, and creating a situation where oil can migrate into the chamber which will cause problems with the bolt lugs cracking from excessive force.

[@762cat]

Any promo codes

[@Rubeless]

Bill was a Democrat

[@BravoJulietAlpha]

Duh.

[@BlownF150]

AR's don't need to be wet to run. Such a stupid thing to keep repeating. The Army put out very specific guidance on when to use more lube than what the -10 calls for, excessive lube will do nothing but increase bolt thrust forces to levels that will ensure premature bolt failure.

[@KeepTheGates]

The Army's standards are dumb and have been for a while. Nothing about it is subjective. They run better wet.

[@mikehicks1776]

You say if it's wet it's going to run but in my experience if a BCG is too wet it won't extract.?.?

[@phprofYT]

From this day forward, I no longer own any rifles. 😁

[@ThePaulAllen]

Guns don’t need to be cleaned😂😂

[@threadripper979]

No Steve, no care

[@Vuntermonkey]

Step 1: Get an AK. No step 2.

[@Rubeless]

Everything fails at some point.

[@idecidenotyou]

Caleb I don't know if you read these or not but could you please turn down the volume levels of the music in the beginning it just kills my ears I drive and listen to your shows and each time it flips over goes to that music and it's so loud it just kills my ears

[@Copenhagen848]

SOLGW is great stuff - I’d recommend them to anyone 👍🏻

[@chrisshumake83]

👍 👍