Sentry Solutions' full line of lubricants and protectants are tested and used by Navy SEALs on their guns and gear.

Gun care presents a huge dilemma. You, your guns and your gear face all kinds of weather and conditions. When faced with dust and dirt, gun oil attracts it! When exposed to freezing temperatures, gun oil and PTFE based lubricants can thicken and gum up. That only covers what Mother Nature throws at you. Firing a gun and the residues created brings on cleaning chores, which give the best chemists migraines. The answer to these gun care challenges has a simple answer. The answer is to lubricate and protect with bonded dry film technology. Sentry Solutions dry film lubricants such as SMOOTH-KOTE and protectants like TUF-CLOTH do not attract dirt and will not thicken or thin as a result of temperature extremes, all while giving you performance and protection proven in combat and competition.

The proper lubrication of guns presents many challenges. The first objective to lubricating a firearm is to reduce friction and wear. Even with the replacement of metal by plastic polymers for many of today’s gun parts, it is still the metal-to-metal mechanisms that allow guns to do what they do. Glock firearms use polymers for the construction of their receivers, yet metal parts are still embedded in the plastic. These metal parts engage the slide’s metal surface and so require proper lubrication. If not properly lubricated, many guns will function, but they will not function as well or as long.

The huge variety of firearms available today presents its own challenges. If you are like most, you own different makes and models and different types; ranging from pistols and revolvers to shotguns, rifles and muzzleloaders. Fortunately, firearms have common maintenance requirements- lubrication and corrosion protection. The gun care products you choose to solve these problems will determine how well your gear performs for you and how much effort you’ll have to expend to achieve the desired performance.

Traditionally gun oil was used to solve both lubrication and corrosion problems. There have been many gun oils available commercially. While many of these products feature special additives and formulations and claim to do miraculous things, they all share one common undisputed similarity- They all work when wet.

In the mid 1980’s Sentry Solutions considered methods to make firearms maintenance easier. We found there were many good lubricants on the market but the fact that they all worked when wet actually contributed to malfunctions and cleaning chores. When a firearms’ surface is wet it attracts and holds dirt and residue of all kinds. All gun oil is easily removed when an oiled surface comes into contact with cloth, sand, or your hand or holster. Sentry Solutions recognized that if we replaced gun oil with dry gun lubricants we could solve many of the equipment malfunctions caused by the use of gun oil. SMOOTH-KOTE is Sentry Solutions answer to gun oil. Along with TUF-CLOTH, TUF-GLIDE and BP2000 Powder, these lubricants and protectants do not attract and hold dirt or residue of any kind. In fact, a gun lubricated with SMOOTH-KOTE will actually resist the build up of residues and fouling to such an extent that cleaning is as simple as brushing off.

Sentry Solutions dry lubricants are similar to non-stick cookware. Metal-to-metal surfaces glide over each other. After treatment, gun actions slide more freely, and dirt and grit aren’t attracted. Any fouling, residue or dirt accumulated through use are shed or easily removed without solvents. This is a revolutionary approach to gun care.

More specific instructions for using Tuf-Cloth and Tuf-Glide on your firearms and knives can be found at the following links, WARNING- 2MB pdf files:  Tuf-Cloth/Tuf-Glide    Smooth-Kote/BP2000/Hi-Slip Grease   These documents open as PDF files.

For more of a product review, see the Field Test article by Ralph Mroz by clicking here.

More than 50,000 of our troops and civilian contractors have found that by replacing their gun oil with TUF-CLOTH and TUF-GLIDE they can reduce their malfunctions and gun care chores.

Sentry Solutions makes a complete toolbox of products for gun care. Sentry’s Tuf products provide rust protection and lubrication. Our specialty products such as SMOOTH-KOTE, BP2000 Powder and HIGH-SLIP GREASE provide lubrication, bore treatment, trigger tuning and keep firearms in top shape.