So I was pulling my barrel through when...

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Here's the long and skinny of it...

Got my cleaning kit in the mail, and I decided to give the barrel a quick pull through to get any packing lube or whatever out of her.

Pulled the barrel through, and heard a little bit of scraping... Uh oh I says aloud to my Tennent's lager...

Look at the cleaning rod and it's all wonky... Remove a section and I'm thinking, that looks a lot better... Being a 14.5" barrel I could do without that extra link.

Pull through again, that sounded better and felt better.

Then I take a close look at the swab jig, some of the black coating was rubbed off and I could see some bare metal... On some of the links I could see some scraping as well. Now I start to worry... I look down the barrel and I can't see any damage, and to be honest I don't even know if my eyes are trained enough to even see it.

So my questions to you fellows are have I just destroyed my AR 15 and what cleaning kit is the best for an AR15? I understand these rifles are designed for military applications and a chrome barrel is pretty tough... But I'm a little worried, any tips would be greatly appreciated.
 
A young private will do more damage to a AR15 barrel and still come out fine ( those are steel rods too ) Most commercial cleaning kits the rods are alum or brass so don't really do much damage. I just use a Otis pull thru. Its a coated cable.
 
RobertMcC said:
A young private will do more damage to a AR15 barrel and still come out fine ( those are steel rods too ) Most commercial cleaning kits the rods are alum or brass so don't really do much damage. I just use a Otis pull thru. Its a coated cable.
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I just ordered the Otis one to replace this garbage I bought...
 
But I wouldn't worry, The AR will suffer worst. Also cleaning rods will un screw it self and slightly bend if you got a alum one.
 
a bullet is "scratching" the sh't out of your barrel every time you pull the trigger, but being copper jacketed softer then steel the damage is minimum.
if your cleaning rod is made of aluminum then there is nothing to worry about, if it's steel be more careful next time.
 
I use both cleaning rods and boresnakes in firearms (.204 Ruger to .325WSM), I always wipe the rods down afterwards and wash out the boresnakes in hot water/dish soap to make sure I don't 'reinstall' that which had been removed previously. BTW, I don't use 'Viper' snakes as they're the ones that seem to be the issue.
 
I took a good look at the bore today in some natural lighting, which I find shows the most imperfections as proven by my Sargent when looking at my parade boots. I'm pretty convinced that everything is A O K... I ordered the Otis set as per your suggestions. Thanks again lads.
 
Did you say aluminum ?

It's probably more likely that the barrel scraped some aluminum off and that's what you're seeing that looks like bare metal, then it is that the aluminum scraped some barrel coating off.
 
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