Bore snake

alberta tactical rifle said:
I LOVE Boresnakes, they are great for business.
Every year we take in several rifles with boresnakes stuck in the bore. How exactly this happens seems to have various causes, all of which end with the rope breaking and there is NO way to get it out.

Ryan you spent big bucks on this rifle PLEASE buy a Dewey coated 1 pc rod and clean it properly. I would hate to have to be the bearer of bad news should a boresnake fail.
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Thank you! I will take your advice
 
I usually take one with me when hunting. When I get back to the shack in the evening give the rifle a quick cleaning. But when I get home the rifle gets a proper cleaning.
 
It doesn't take much to wear off the Sharp edge of any steel.
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How many animals can you skin before your skinning knife starts to lose it's edge? How can this possibly happen when the steel of your blade is so much harder than the animal tissue that it is passing through? Now compare that tissue to a boresnake, and it is easy to see how a boresnake covered in grit can remove metal from the crown.
 
If one absolutely has to use a bore snake, it is very important to pull it straight out of the muzzle... as straight as you can will impart as little damage as possible. I think the vast majority of those who use bore snakes don't realize how important a fresh crown is in accuracy...
 
I'm not back packing my full cleaning kit way in the back country for a week. I'm sure Carlos Hathcock had a cleaning bench and an armoures kit for his Model 70 with him too.
 
I have one in .30 and one in .223... Great for a quick swab thru the M14 XCR and M4 while shooting dirty ammo... Keep them clean and in a ziplock and after washing and before use give them a mild test pull.

A bore snake thru a precision barrel? Pffftt... I think not. :stirthepot2:
 
I think I am pulling the bore snakes very much straight out of the muzzle with the 3" or so long flash hider in my M14s. And I couldn't care less if they damage the hider...
 
To each his own on the cleaning. You do have a bunch of nationaly and internationally ranked elite level shooters, some of the top guys in the country and the world, along with at least two guys that build the guns that those folks shoot saying don't use a boresnake in your precision rifle. But I'm sure you know better.
 
Putting aside the potential damage it may or may not cause (not hard to make a small muzzle/crown protector), I have yet to read any useful benefit it actually provides in a precision centerfire rifle. The loose carbon in the bore is the only thing it's going to remove and that isn't going to restore accuracy if it's gone south...

For a compact field cleaning tool, the Otis kit is a better option.
 
Exactly. Powder residue is not what causes degredation of accuracy and that is all a boresnake is going to remove if you are lucky. The benefits do not outweigh the risks. They do work on mossberg night trains though...;)
 
Have you ever heard of anyone having success removing a broken snake from a barrel? No you haven't, because no one has successfully achieved this task. This whole myth that your should clean your gun every 10 rounds or every session is bs . If you do a proper solvent clean like using a product like wipeout, gunzilla etc, you won't get your accuracy back untill about the 10th round when your barrel properly is (for lack of a better word) dirty. I shoot my match guns 200-300 rounds between cleanings. You will know when your gun is too dirty when your groups start opening. I had a hard time believing this at first too, but it works fine. Your not sacrificing any barrel life either.
 
Having some type of a pullthrough on hand when hunting incase of emergency is just smart. "Cleaning" you precision rifle with one on a regular basis, not so smart.
 
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