I have never used grease on slide assembly, oil yes. I am glad you have had good luck with your BGMiddle Age Russ wrote:Like DA said, I recently got a Bodyguard 380, SN EAA4xxx. Through about 200 rounds, I have not had a single issue. For self-loaders, we thouroughly clean and then grease slide rails and oil other action parts prior to ever going to the range with a new arm. During this process, and subsequent field stripping/cleaning, I noticed that the main thing holding the takedown pin in place is a little wire spring, which fits into a notch on the takedown pin itself. It seems that the size and shape of the notch in the pin in conjunction with the size of the wire spring are absolutely critical, as is properly getting the spring to seat in the notch when assembling. Noting this, I try to be very careful when assembling to ensure that the pin seats well in the notch. If I am in doubt, I keep working with it until satisfied. I think doing so may have contributed to the reliability so far, but I guarantee that S&W will immediately have a chance to fix the issue if the pin suddenly starts backing out on its own. I have heard that they know what the fix is and quickly get things sorted.
Best of luck,
I always clean and oil'em up good when new out of the box prior to going to range, also pay close attention to detail when I reassemble the firearm. The pin appears to snap in place solid and flush to frame which in turn makes me think its installed correctly, who knows lets see what S&W does from here they surely have a problem.Check this out, and there are more out there, alot.
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Totally, but my wife really liked the gun when she first seen it, so we came home with it 
Plus it is a S&W who would've thought 
. I hear that S&W will repair the issue. Other than that its a great little gun, plus she's happy 
so that puts me in good standings, might get a new gun out of the deal 
lots of issues with this little gun, have a read and check it out. Hers will be going back to S & W. They said in the forum the serial # starting off EAA are experiencing these and other issues. 
Guess what hers is EAAXXXX