Cleaning kit for AR ?

[Guill]

Ok, i buy two cleaning kit that is supposed to be universal but the cleaning rod is too large for the barrel. I also buy the UTG AR-15 kit and i've got the same problem. What do you use to clean your rifle ?

 

[cablemonkey]

The same gear I use on my 10/22.

 

[Guill]

The same gear I use on my 10/22.

Ok and what you use for your 10/22 ?

 

[cablemonkey]

Kleen-Bore rifle cleaning kit with steel rod
.22/.223/5.56mm
Model No. K-205

 

[Satain]

Get an otis cleaning kit system. Supper easy to use and you don't have to take it apart to clean the barrel.

 

[beltfed]

I'd recommend a one piece coated cleaning rod. Save the parkerized steel 4 piece rods and Otis kits for when you are stuck in the bush and need to clean your rifle....

 

[Demon971]

Get an otis cleaning kit system. Supper easy to use and you don't have to take it apart to clean the barrel.

I would take it apart to clean the barrel anyway. To reduce wear/damage to bore rifling, you should only pull-through in direction of bullet path (from chamber to muzzle).
Besides, it's uber easy to field strip...

 

[Guill]

Get an otis cleaning kit system. Supper easy to use and you don't have to take it apart to clean the barrel.

I also buy an Otis kit, great kit but don't fit to my barrel !

 

[cancer]

I would take it apart to clean the barrel anyway. To reduce wear/damage to bore rifling, you should only pull-through in direction of bullet path (from chamber to muzzle).
Besides, it's uber easy to field strip...

I disagree. The AR15 (and most firearms for that matter) should only be cleaned from the receiver end in order to prevent scratching and uneven marking at the crown of the barrel.

 

[yohann160]

I disagree. The AR15 (and most firearms for that matter) should only be cleaned from the receiver end in order to prevent scratching and uneven marking at the crown of the barrel.

Do you mean "receiving end" ? If so, that's contrary to everything I've been taught during a life in and around guns.

 

[CdnCombatMedic]

I only use a dewey coated rod, with a dewey chamber guide cleaning chamber to muzzle. Phos bronze brushes. For the chamber I use a 22 patch holder and a 12g patch. I use many qtips and old tooth brushes.

 

[Demon971]

I disagree. The AR15 (and most firearms for that matter) should only be cleaned from the receiver end in order to prevent scratching and uneven marking at the crown of the barrel.

I don't think you understood me. "From chamber to muzzle" means cleaning from the receiver end.

The CF trains us to scrape/clean bore from chamber/reciever to muzzle in a one-way fashion (following the path the bullet travels). Not everyone does it, obviously, but it's most logical especially if you're using more aggressive scraping pull-throughs. You shouldn't go against the rifling, regardless. Once or twice won't do anything negative but several hundred or thousand pull throughs in opposite direction would reduce the effectiveness of the bore's rifling.

 

[beltfed]

I sometimes pull both ways. I personally don't think it does any damage.

An uncoated steel rod I can understand, but how does a bronze brush or patch pulled in the opposite direction do more damage to a barrels' rifling than a copper bullet jacket traveling at ~3000fp/s?