Hoppe's #9 to clean bore and everything else. Breakfree CLP for oil on surfaces and rotating parts. Lubriplate SFL #1 grease on sliding surfaces.
SFL #1 is a food-grade, white grease. Great for CCW, because if it gets on your clothes it doesn't mess anything up. It has never gotten on my clothes -- it does not migrate.
Interesting note on the whale oil, one of the finest lubricants ever: Automatic transmission fluid is almost the same stuff. An article on gun lubricants (I can't find it right now online) rated ATF as the best gun oil.
I'm told that the civilian Breakfree doesn't have as much teflon as the stuff I used in the military. A friend applies Slick-50 to his guns as a teflon treatment -- doesn't use it as the regular lubricant, just to give the metal a teflon treatment. Not enough experience to really evaluate it, but all his firearms sure do work smoothly.
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