Beware the boresnake

The best tip I ever herd when it comes to boresnakes was to tie a length of 65lb braid fishing line to the rear loop.if the pull cord breaks you 've got the means to pull it back out.
 
Remember kids, don't put the wrong size in the hole :D

Have a few of them and put them all in there own labelled sandwhich bags. The little brass tab with a number on it doesn't really help with the sizing issue. I find there good for a quick clean but not the be all, end all.

Dewey rod and some traditional cleaning for a nice pretty bore. Everyone likes a clean bore :)
 
You can use cotton butcher string instead.

Long before the bore snake ever became available on the retail market I would make something similar out of cotton butcher string. I had a two by four with 2 finishing nails on it about 3 feet apart. I would simply wind cotton butcher string around the 2 nails as many times as I needed to get a good snug fit in the barrel of each caliber I had. The number of loops depends on the size of the cotton butcher string you buy.

Once the correct number of strands were wound, I would just loosely braid the loops so it wouldnt tangle up and tie off each end. If you dont know how to braid, just ask your wife for help. I then tied a single strand of heavy nylon fishing string to act as the pull through with a small fishing sinker on it to drop through the barrel and get it started.

I kept the string in an old largemouth bottle of Hoppes or ziploc bag and added a bit more copper solvent on it to freshen it up before I would use it.

It was great, because it went all the way through the barrel and once pulled in, I would just leave it soak (making contact from one end to the other) for a while and every now and then tug it back and fourth a bit just to help it get into the nooks and crannies.

I later made some with a piece of fine scotch bright (kind of like pot scrubber side of sponge) at the tip where I tied the nylon fishing string to the cotton and that worked even better. I had some that were soaked in solvent, some that were clean and some that were oiled. In my opinion this works better than a boresnake anyway.

Who knows??? maybe that is how the boresnake guys got the idea in the first place... never know, maybe I showed one guy too many.
 
I don't know what brands you guys are using, but the Otis AR15/M16 kit works great for me. Anything boresnake that can't be pulled through with your finger tips alone is asking for trouble. This goes for metal rod cleaning kits as well... I shudder to think what some of the barrels out there look like for you guys who are having to hammer metal rods through your rifles just to get oversized patches though them when you clean.

If you want white glove inspection grade cleaning, pass a brass/copper scouring brush through a couple times to break up any lead, then use a foaming bore cleaner like Wipe-out before re-lubing with oil.
 
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