I have used Safari Charlie over the past several months and although I haven’t had many clients that decided to travel to Argentina to shoot doves this year, I can give you a report on the rental firearms I maintain for Shooters Of America. These rental guns get very heavy use on a daily basis. At first they were having me clean them once a week, and I stated out using Break Free CLP as the lubricant after they came out of the ultrasonic cleaner. Upon inspection every week the guns came back to me with very heavy carbon buildup, and dry of any lubrication. (I guess we were talking about 2-3000 rounds per week.)
When you introduced me to your Safari Charlie Gun Lube Plus, I decided to run the product through rental gun hell to see how it would hold up. As it turned out, although the guns seemed just as dirty as before (as would be expected with 3-4 times as many rounds fired), they were much easier to clean than before. As time went on Shooters Of America decided, in an effort to cut costs, to stop maintaining the rental guns until they started to receive complaints of malfunctions. At this point I was only cleaning and lubricating the firearms about once every 3-4 weeks with SCGL(Approximately 10-12,000 rounds). I found this pretty amazing, and even though there were some feeding issues at this point I don’t recall any broken parts or spring failures.
Fast forward another few months. In an effort to further cut costs, they decided to purchase an ultrasonic cleaner and service the guns themselves so my testing of your product came to an end at that point since I had no control over the maintenance.
Heres the part that impressed me with your product, about a month went by after my last application of your Safari Charlie product on these guns. As would be expected, the guns started to have a few feeding issues. When they went to clean the guns and removed the Safari Charlie product from the guns it only took a few weeks before they started to experience broken extractors, weak springs, and feeding problems to the extent that they had to bring the guns back to me to replace parts, and repair. Week after week the repair bill what the cleaning/lubricating bill was when they were just maintained every few weeks. They were not using Safari Charlie Gun Lubricant.
I’m a believer! They are believers! I’m back to servicing the rental guns about once every three weeks with no major problems. I think you have a winner here. By the way, it smells great also. Thanks for introducing me to your product. I’ve tried lots of different “snake oil” over the past 28 years that I have been a gunsmith, but your product really lives up to its claims.
G.T. Ward, Gunsmiths Inc.
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