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I use WD-40 to dry out and preserve muzzle loader, cap and ball revolver, and black powder cartridge rifle/revolver barrels and actions after a hot water cleaning. It does a great job in this capacity, as it does migrate quite well to any nooks and crannies that may hold water, like breach plug threads on the muzzle loaders.
Charles is right; if left in the gun, it will eventually cause a hangfire or failure. And it does suck as a lube; it was never intended as such. So use it to clean and dry collected moisture out of the gun, but make sure you get it all off when you are done.
I have always wondered why 1911 magazines do not come apart to clean. For a military sidearm, this would appear to be a serious oversight. Or is it? I have a Springfield Armory parkerized 1911A1, dead "stock" G.I. spec pistol. I have three magazines for it. I have shot this pistol regularly since about 1985, putting a couple thousand rounds a year through it. I clean it regularly, but have never cleaned any of its magazines. I wipe down the outsides of them, but that's it. I can count the jams this pistol has had on one hand. Hmm...
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