Cleaning advice

[nickredhill]

My Ruger owners manual suggests using Slip 2000 EWG Extreme Weapons Grease when cleaning the trigger group.
I generally buy stuff from Uttings but they don't sell this.
I can get it from Brownells but then I notice, at £26.90 it's almost twice the price of Liqui Molly gun grease, at 14.99, and the Beretta White Grease I already have only costs 10.99.

So my question is whether there's much difference between them and whether you recommend I should get the slip 2000 due to a specific difference between them?
Any advice greatly appreciated, not least because this will be the first time I've cleaned the trigger mechanism.

Thanks.

[Mattnall]

Don't worry about it.
10/22s will work, just give it a clean every once in a while.
Any heavier gun oil will do if you must use it, not sure if there is any difference between all the ones you mentioned apart from price.

[nickredhill]

Thanks, that's what I suspected.
Just one small concern is that the rifle is a Ruger Precision Rimfire RPR 22, not an old faithful 10/22, and the trigger is adjustable so not just a 10/22 trigger in another ruger.
The Beretta white gun grease is for a beretta shotgun for the lugs that the barrel interlocks onto in the action. So if I make the comparison with motor oil, I guess I'm wondering if it's like comparing that old castrol mineral oil in a Mk1 Austin Mini with the 0w30 in a new BMW Mini ?
Or is gun grease just gun grease?

[dromia]

I run my .22" semis dry, lube just holds the grit in place.

If you must use an oil then the best gun oil is Automatic Transmission Fluid.

The gun branded products are just expensive rip offs.

[FredB]

Lubricants are deigned for high pressure, low friction or a combination of both: auto transmission fluid meets the combined requirement.
Fred

[Itsfatty]

I recently switched over to Teflon based lube from weldtite, I started using it in my Typhoon F12 but when I ran out of what I was using on my 10/22 I used this instead and have never looked back. It’s a semi dry lube so doesn’t gum up as quickly now and I swear it’s made the action smoother