[Jeff Higgins]

No, I've never heard of a gun oil marketed as such directly by Lucas. I would be curious as to what it really is... in other words, which existing product they simply repackaged...

I rather strongly suspect that most, if not all "gun" oils are indeed just that - repackaged existing products from other disciplines. Household oils like 3 in 1, light sewing machine oils, watch oils, industrial oils, etc. The firearms industry, as far as I know, doesn't employ many, if any, chemical/lubrication engineers on the level of our old Lubemaster. It's just not an area of "core competency" that they would deem profitable enough to pursue that they would employ that kind of expertise. Yeah, guys within the industry experiment with different oils, but I bet no one within the industry actually develops their own oils. No matter what they try to tell us.

So maybe that's just the game we are playing - get ahead of that repackaging curve. Buy it at eight bucks a quart before it goes into two ounce bottles for ten bucks apiece... My favorite story regarding this practice actually comes from my mountain biking days...

A couple of riding buddies were the typical type that seem to be smitten by all of the latest and greatest. One day one of them showed with with some new whiz-bang chain oil, called Phil's Tenacious Oil. Guaranteed to never fling or wash off of your chain. Came in a spiffy little aqua blue squeeze bottle for ease of application. Maybe two ounces, probably ten bucks for the bottle. Well, just as soon as he started dribbling it on his chain, I recognized the smell - gear oil. Plain old 80W-90 gear oil. It couldn't have been more obvious to anyone who grew up as a gear head kid getting that crap in their hair, laying under some beater to change it out. It still brings a smile to my face to this very day, picturing Phil in his garage with a 55 gallon drum of gear oil, pumping it into two ounce bottles and putting ten dollar price tags on them. Of course he's probably retired to the Bahamas by now...