Rifle cleaning kit

[weejohn 3]

and the other most important piece of equipment along with the cleaning rods is most definately a bore guide

Deker is right in saying you should buy the seperate rods / jags and brushes for each calibre.

 

 

ha ha bore guides, I spoke to my gunshop a while ago and he said that they sell hardly any, maybe 1 or 2 a year!

 

but yep, I'd get separate gear for each caliber...

 

very good

[cyclonebri1 8]

You cannot get a jacketed calibre properly clean with a boresnake, you need too many different things down the bore - that's why patches are good, different solvents are easy to use!

 

With the .17 I couldn't get anything down the bore, let alone a variety of brushes/swabs

 

A bore guide would have hepled in my case. I had set up the gun from new and was running in the barrel in the field, 1 multipiece rod was flung over the fence after about 3 shots and 2 attempts to rod broke it. Went home, bought Parker hale rod and different phos brush, threads differed, and set out again. Managed to strip all the Teflon off the rod at the boly end and gave up in frustration.

 

A week latter I was back with a boresnake and I'm happy to use that everytime out. .22 and above rod rules

[dicehorn 38]

I tried to remain conventional with the cleaning gear but the .17hmr is a bugger to rod out. I bust 2 cleaning rods, (1 a parker hale 1 piece), in two sessions. The force required to shove the brush up the barrel wastoo much. Anyway gave up and bought a bore snake, much easier, quicker and less chance of knocking the scope whilst wrestling with 3ft of rod

 

Boresnake for this and didicated rods for other calibres would be my say

 

the patches can be a real pain if they are just a little big though!! Perhaps a bore guide would have helped you.

 

But then again I think my view of bore snakes for full cleaning is well known!!

 

I did have the same problem with my 17 rem patches, but found that by spiking them not in the middle of the patch with the jag, but well off centre made the job much easier.

 

For them using phosphor or nylon brushes in the bore who have not used them before, there seems to be a misconception that they are used to scrub the bore without the brush exiting the muzzle - do this and it will cause rod breakages. The brush should (after applying solvent) be pushed thro and OUT of the muzzle then withdraw it back out of the chamber - it is suggested doing this once for every shot fired since cleaning last time ensuring more solvent is added to the brush every 6 or 7 strokes.

 

Remember that the life of a phosphor brush is not long - once it becomes easy to push it through the bore, it is time to buy another. Another tip is to always ensure that after using the brush is to run it under a tap to remove the solvent otherwise the solvent will deteriorate the bristles when you put it away.

 

As far as I am concerned boresnakes should be kept in your trousers

[cyclonebri1 8]

My boresnake will not be so contained