If you would like to see the actual article with illustration, click here. (CAUTION: this is a large file and may take a few seconds to load).

Sentry Solutions is a manufacturer of high-tech dry film lubricants and residue inhibitors for firearms. Quite literally, you may not need to clean or lubricate your gun for the next 40,000 rounds with these products.

DESCRIPTION

Sentry Solutions makes two product lines: high-performance dry film lubricants (BP2000 and Smooth-Kote) and corrosion inhibitors (Tuf-Cloth, Marine Tuf-Cloth and Tuf-Glide). Additionally, they make a high-tech grease called Hi-Slip Grease for very high-wear areas.

Smooth-Kote is a fast-drying lubricant and bore treatment that literally bonds to your gun's metal parts. To apply it, you strip your gun, paint the lubricant onto all metal parts (including the inside of the barrel), and let it dry overnight, or accelerate the drying/curing process with a hair dryer. Use BP2000 Powder over the Smooth-Kote to further reduce friction and lengthen coating life; then, reassemble the gun. All moving parts are now thoroughly lubricated by Smooth-Kote's layered crystal structure, and you'll notice a significant difference in trigger-pull friction. But even more impressive is the fact that your gun will hardly foul from shooting anymore.

TESTING AND EVALUATION

After I applied Smooth-Kote, I went to the range for a 200-round session. Back home, I field-stripped my gun and it was as clean as before I shot it. The manufacturer recommends simply brushing the interior parts of the gun with a dry brush after shooting.

How long can this treatment last? Well, one police trainer put more than 40,000 rounds through his Glock without cleaning it, and the gun still worked perfectly.

Sentry Solutions performed some tests of their own before some very discriminating gun enthusiasts. They used a Glock 19 treated with Smooth-Kote, and a 23 treated with a couple of drops of a traditional firearms lubricant (as per the instructions). Both actions were opened and both guns dropped into a box containing kitty litter and fine sand. The results were astonishing: The Glock 19 treated with Smooth-Kote was fully operational after simply knocking the pistol against the operator's hand, while the traditionally treated 23 was not able to function.

The recommended procedure for treating your gun is to first coat all the interior parts with Smooth-Kote; next, rub BP-2000 onto all wearing surfaces. Then, put a pinhead-size dot of High-Slip Grease on extremely high-wear surface matings (such as the trigger bar and connector juncture on a Glock), and then wipe down the outside of the gun with Tuf-Cloth.

Tuf-Cloth is a fabric impregnated with a corrosion inhibitor that actually goes into the pores of the gun metal to protect it from rust. Tuf-Glide is similar, only in a liquid form for application to hard-to-reach surfaces.

Sentry Solutions products are in use worldwide by elite military units and police departments of all sizes. These guns are now incredibly corrosion-resistant — something that's even more imperative with seldom-used guns like shotguns and carbines. Officers now spend less time (or no time) cleaning their weapons after a range session, making the training more enjoyable, and leaving more time for shooting. I can honestly say that every gun I own in the future will be treated with Sentry Solutions products.

Available from

Sentry Solutions Ltd.

Phone (800) 546-8049

Reprinted from

The Police Marksman

Promoting police firearms training, officer survival and competitive shooting. 6000 East Shirley Lane • Montgomery • AL • 36117 • (800) 223-7869 • Fax (334) 279-9267

DISTRIBUTED BY

http://www.sentrysolutions.com