How many of you use bore snakes

[RRH.01]

I use mine for my hunting rifles, they get washed regularly, enough they're are for sure no worse than an oversized copper jacketed bullet getting squeezed down the barrel at a scorching hot 45000+psi. I'm sure if it got loaded up with carbon it would be detrimental.

 

[RRH.01]

It always brings me joy when I see that people think a slightly dirty bore snake is doing major damage to their bores when they are firing lead/copper/brass projectiles at thousands of feet per second through that same barrel.

Are people trying to pull pistol snakes through their rifles? Otherwise at least one end should be accessible from one end. If it breaks you should be able to pull it through. Although I have a hard time believing that half of the people that claim breakage actually have experienced one.

Use them properly and they work.

I should have read his post. +1

 

[verminaard]

At home I have Tipton rods and at least one boresnake for each calibre (for 8-10 bucks at Walmart in the US, why not). In the field I carry a boresnake and now recently an Otis kit.

They do the job and the only issue I have had was getting one stuck because operator error. Left my turkey choke in. It wasn't the easiest thing to get out, but eventually I was able to unscrew the choke and get everything unjamed.