Tips for cleaning a 22 BLR

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I have a .22 Browning lever action rifle and am looking for tips on how to clean it properly. I want all cleaning to happen from the breech to the muzzle to avoid dumping material into the breech. The breech is small enough that any ramrod brush combo looks impossible.

Any tips?
 
I don't have a lever action so this is just a guess. Can you use the poly-string trimmer 'pull-thru' ? It would allow you an option beyond a bore snake that collects crap for later use. Another thing, I have a Marlin 60 and when I clean I can run a nylon brush both directions. I just put a patch in the breech to collect that 'First pass' crap that I'm to understand is the worst with 'primer anvil particles'. Just bein' careful with my $300 investment. And I do the same 'first-pass' thing with all my rimfires, '. . . the only way to be sure' .
 
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If you cannot get a cleaning rod in from the breach use a rod with a muzzle protector and put a fired case in the chamber. When you bottom out the rod rotate it as you switch from pushing to pulling to reverse the bristles. Clean up the chamber after.
 
Those are OK if you keep them clean. Otherwise you're draggin' dirt from the last cleaning onto an already dirty barrel. Just stirrin' things up.
 
The Browning BLR22 is an easy one to take apart. Just take out the main screw and it comes apart quite readily unlike the Winchester 94 22
Just don’t lose the spring and ejector - I am a klutz and have no issues taking mine apart in the 45 years I have owned mine
 
"Swab-its" makes 22 cal "Bore-Whips". They are designed for pull-through but I use them push-through. Use the other end to push through patches.
 
You'll probably do more harm than good to the accuracy by cleaning the barrel unless the groups have gone for a crap. Cleaning the gunk out of the action is one thing but scrubbing barrels on 22's isn't something I'd do unless it's really needed. Most will shoot better with fouled bores.
 
I just sold my BL22 that I owned it for almost fifty years.I made my own cleaning string with some weed eater line heated and flattened on one end, and then cut on an angle on the other end, to pierce the patch.The Bl22 is not an easy gun to take apart, and then put back together, plus it is easy to lose small delicate parts, and not get them together properly."Mixup98" on Youtube, has a great video on the process on taking it apart, and carefully putting it all back.His channel is a good one ............If you have trouble making the bore cleaner, i will mail you one out, and make one myself for you.Everyone loves them for cleaning their gun, that I have given to them.It cleans any barrel without damage, plus is good for removing excessive fouling, between groups.
 
gandalfe said:
I just sold my BL22 that I owned it for almost fifty years.I made my own cleaning string with some weed eater line heated and flattened on one end, and then cut on an angle on the other end, to pierce the patch.The Bl22 is not an easy gun to take apart, and then put back together, plus it is easy to lose small delicate parts, and not get them together properly."Mixup98" on Youtube, has a great video on the process on taking it apart, and carefully putting it all back.His channel is a good one ............If you have trouble making the bore cleaner, i will mail you one out, and make one myself for you.Everyone loves them for cleaning their gun, that I have given to them.It cleans any barrel without damage, plus is good for removing excessive fouling, between groups.
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The commercial version is called a”PatchWorm”
 
Why google it ? He knows how to make one for almost NO $$. anyone with some trimmer string and a bic can do it, mailing them will cost more than the string. Still not a substitute for a brush occasionally.
 
Buck1950 said:
Why google it ? He knows how to make one for almost NO $$. anyone with some trimmer string and a bic can do it, mailing them will cost more than the string. Still not a substitute for a brush occasionally.
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While there are a number of DIY options, the suggestion to google "Patchworm" wasn't made as a recommendation to buy it. The suggestion was to direct anyone wanting to know more about where to find information about that particular product. Patchworm is the name of the line of products sold exclusively by 20/20 Concepts. This is only one make of pull through that's available from retailers.

The recommendation about the use of a brush occasionally is good, but since a brush should be used from the breech to the muzzle, it's use can be difficult with what's a limited access area to the breech on a Browning .22LR lever action. There are pull through systems that will take a brush, and perhaps a pistol brush, which is shorter in length, may be a workable alternative to the longer .22LR rifle brush.
 
45CAT said:
The commercial version is called a”PatchWorm”
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This.^^^^^^

No need to use a brush on a 22lr. Never used one except for when I got a 22 pistol with a dirty bore that had caked on powder residue from never being cleaned and put away. Luckily the powder had not been left long enough for it to rust the bore, although one similar pistol I got did have a pit marks as result of powder residue left in the bore. If the powder residue is kept wiped out after each use there is no need to use a brush. I have never seen a 22lr bore lead up ever!

Just clean out the unburnt powder after every shooting session using a patch with some solvent followed by dry patch and then apply some oil with a clean patch. That's all that's needed to keep the bore pristine.

I have a like new Win 94-22 that has been "cleaned" that way after every shooting session.

The only thing I will warn you about is to pull that slowly through the bore and be careful not to run the cord against the inside edge of the muzzle. It could potentially wear against the metal with friction and dirt. Also remember to wipe off the cord after each pass through the bore so no gunk is on it to make it like sandpaper.

Also for the first pass do not use the 20cal bushing on the cord for a tight fit of the patch until you have made one pass to get the big gunk out or it might just stick or break the cord. Also use just the patch for the final oiling so it leaves lots of oil residue in the bore.

Run a clean dry patch through the oiled bore before next use, and you will be all set for enjoying that BLR for the rest of your life and that of you grandchildren so long as it is not banned. :)
 
You can buy a can of gun scrubber and blast it down the barrel and clean out the action then use a 22 pull through . a good one of course . or buy a book on the assembly and disassembly of that rifle and do it properly . or look up on youtube on how to take one apart and put it back together properly . I have looked up on youtube lots of videos on how to do so . that's how I taught myself to take a gun apart and put it back together that everyone was afraid to do . watch a few of them . some are great and some are garbage . and use the proper screwdrivers . don't scratch the receiver .

I still have to get a proper screwdriver set . a buddy told me many years ago that the screws on guns aren't the same as those you buy in the stores . I guess that's why you see lots of as by buddy says lot's of screws that have been #####ed on guns for sale at the gun shows . never clean from the muzzle if at all possible you can damage the crown . good luck Brother .
 
A short brass brush (wet with Hoppes #9) can be inserted into the chamber (thread towards the muzzle) and a rod can be inserted from the muzzle and screwed onto the brush and then pulled out the muzzle... it's slow but very effective...

You do not need to clean a .22 rim fire bore often.
 
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