Barrel Cleaning - Boresnake

Nothing quite like trying squeeze every little bit of accuracy possible out of a hunting rifle and its ammunition, right down to down to smallest detail available, only to wrap to muzzle of said rifle in electrical tape. The irony. The argument, of course, is there that it doesn't affect accuracy. Just as the argument is there that boresnakes work. Or don't.

R.
 
I put tape on the muzzle of my rifle while in the field! Also a few years ago hunting a section of river with a friend we would go back and forth to the top shuttling with his little Honda motor bike, one day he went back up and got thrown off the bike and went in the dirt rifle muzzle first! Got to camp, we cleaned it the best we could with what we had( no bore snakes or rods) the next day he missed a moose( that I managed to get ), after he got home went to check his rifle out, it was more than 3’ off to one side!! His scope got knocked out in the incident! Since then I always carry a bore snake and a little laser bore sighter in my kit, but from now on I will carry a brake down rod with a jag and some patches!!
 
I hunt close to home... never have never will pack a rod or snake hunting... Always tape my muzzle, with a bit extra wrapped around the barrel..I have verified trajectory, accuracy, and precision out past 800 yds with it on or off the gun and it makes absolutely zero difference that I can tell...I dont generally like bore snakes as a cleaning tool although I do have a few of them....I have no idea how one would help if you plugged your barrel with mud... since I hunt close to home ( in my back yard almost) there is no issue with just going home if a disaster befell my rifle or scope....fix it up and go back out tomorrow....my bore scope proves that a rod and patch does a better job faster than a bore snake but YMMV..
 
Watching those Meateater, Steve Rinella videos, he almost always tapes his muzzle, and yet I see him sighting it in at the range with no muzzle tape. Clearly he is of the opinion the tape does nothing meaningful to trajectory.
 
tokguy said:
Otherwise it's just like giving up and getting adult diapers. 'Accidents happen...are you ready?'
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Muzzles in and out of saddle scabbards, in snow storms, in rain storms, in timber with snow cover, crawling on the prairie, strapped to packs in the mountains, and yes going for a spill while hitting holes, downed timber etc in knee deep snow. Yea, tape on your muzzle is pretty cheap insurance. If you shoot out of the truck window, disregard the above.
 
Tok - ffs ? Have you never seen a nice lightweight screw together aluminum rod ? I have one that I keep in my pack ! BUT as I always tape or use TALARIK or BORE TEX muzzle covers I have never used it . :p

Rather obvious NO one’s packing a 1 piece rod out hunting ! :rolleyes:

My comment was only that it’s gonna be phucking hard to push any obstruction out of a rifle barrel with a rope ! f:P:

Cheers RJ
 
I almost always have electrical tape over my muzzle. Well except for that one time of course...

Hunting moose in the bush off of an atv. Use the atv to get to and from camp only and hunt on foot at our desired location. I keep a 22 in my front rack box that is under my rifle rack for grouse along the trail. Well as luck would have it, I see a chicken on the way back to camp, open the front rack box to fetch the trusty 22 and the gun in the fin grip somehow falls muzzle first into the icy mud in front of the atv.

So now I'm sitting there with a plugged bore on my only rifle that I brought this trip. What do I do? I looked around, double and triple checked the rifle was safe (which of course it was before it got put in the rack) and I put that muzzle in my mouth and sucked that icy mud out of the bore. It was not my finest moment but it had to be done. I'm sure glad there were no witnesses and I blush thinking about it to this day.

Of course I didn't get all of the mud out of the bore so I dropped a loaded 22 round from the chamber to the muzzle to get the last little chunk. I then dropped a length of Para cord through the bore and tied a knot on one end then pulled it through making an improvised bore snake of sorts.

I would have loved to have an Otis kit or a boresnake that day but alas I did not. I improvised and cleared the obstruction but learned a lesson along the way and now my bore remains taped every time it's taken into the field.

And no, I didn't swallow.
 
savagelh said:
I almost always have electrical tape over my muzzle. Well except for that one time of course...

Hunting moose in the bush off of an atv. Use the atv to get to and from camp only and hunt on foot at our desired location. I keep a 22 in my front rack box that is under my rifle rack for grouse along the trail. Well as luck would have it, I see a chicken on the way back to camp, open the front rack box to fetch the trusty 22 and the gun in the fin grip somehow falls muzzle first into the icy mud in front of the atv.

So now I'm sitting there with a plugged bore on my only rifle that I brought this trip. What do I do? I looked around, double and triple checked the rifle was safe (which of course it was before it got put in the rack) and I put that muzzle in my mouth and sucked that icy mud out of the bore. It was not my finest moment but it had to be done. I'm sure glad there were no witnesses and I blush thinking about it to this day.

Of course I didn't get all of the mud out of the bore so I dropped a loaded 22 round from the chamber to the muzzle to get the last little chunk. I then dropped a length of Para cord through the bore and tied a knot on one end then pulled it through making an improvised bore snake of sorts.

I would have loved to have an Otis kit or a boresnake that day but alas I did not. I improvised and cleared the obstruction but learned a lesson along the way and now my bore remains taped every time it's taken into the field.

And no, I didn't swallow.
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That is an amazing tale. Kudos. - dan
 
savagelh said:
I almost always have electrical tape over my muzzle. Well except for that one time of course...

Hunting moose in the bush off of an atv. Use the atv to get to and from camp only and hunt on foot at our desired location. I keep a 22 in my front rack box that is under my rifle rack for grouse along the trail. Well as luck would have it, I see a chicken on the way back to camp, open the front rack box to fetch the trusty 22 and the gun in the fin grip somehow falls muzzle first into the icy mud in front of the atv.

So now I'm sitting there with a plugged bore on my only rifle that I brought this trip. What do I do? I looked around, double and triple checked the rifle was safe (which of course it was before it got put in the rack) and I put that muzzle in my mouth and sucked that icy mud out of the bore. It was not my finest moment but it had to be done. I'm sure glad there were no witnesses and I blush thinking about it to this day.

Of course I didn't get all of the mud out of the bore so I dropped a loaded 22 round from the chamber to the muzzle to get the last little chunk. I then dropped a length of Para cord through the bore and tied a knot on one end then pulled it through making an improvised bore snake of sorts.

I would have loved to have an Otis kit or a boresnake that day but alas I did not. I improvised and cleared the obstruction but learned a lesson along the way and now my bore remains taped every time it's taken into the field.

And no, I didn't swallow.
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Wow ! You done Well ! :d;) RJ
 
For 30 years when hunting I packed a German made 'folding' cleaning rod... it rolled up in a small 3 inch 'circle'... that and a brush and some patches... and never needed to use it... kept the muzzle taped as well... I bought it used in 1970 at a gun auction in Calgary...

Here is a cheap copy...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362166202839
 
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