This was topic was brought up in another thread, but rather than continue to hijack that one, I thought I'd kick off a new thread.
If you follow the instructions provided by StoneyPoint, you may end up damaging the ejector in your rifle.
Here is the StoneyPoint bore guide package that I recently purchased for use on my Savage 93R17BV:
You can't read the text through the shiney packaging because of the camera flash, but it reads: Fits .17 & .22 Caliber Rimfire Bolt Actions and of course the sticker on the package identifies as being for use on the Savage line of rifles.
The relevant portions of the instructions on the back of the package reads:
"Use care when installing the bore guide...especially the first time. At no time is force required to install the bore guide into your gun. Excessive force may bend or distort the standing ejector.
Note that a small locator groove (v-groove) is machined into both the small tube and the the large aluminum tubes. Holding the bore guide, rotate the small tube so that the two v-grooves are 180 degrees opposed from each other. Insert the bore guide assembly into the action with the large flat section (and the opening in the solvent port) facing down. Gently push both tubes of the bore guide fully forward in the action, until the smaller diameter tube rests against the barrel at the chamber. Now gently rotate the the solvent port (and small tube) 180 degrees so that the opening in the solvent port faces up. The slot in the bore guide will go over the standing ejector. [Here is a picture to help clarify. The notch cut into the plastic on the right end is the ejector slot]
Now clean your gun holding the bore guide snugly forward, against the barrel, as the cleaning implements pass from guide to barrel. Use the solvent port as a means to apply solvent to your patch or brush.
To remove the bore guide, rotate the solvent port to face down (thus clearing the standing ejector) and gently pull the assembly from the action. Use a rag or patch to clean any excess solvent from action, then replace bolt."
Here's the problem: the standing ejector on the Savage 93R17 is in the way. Maybe it isn't on a Savage .22 rifle, but it definately is on the 93R17's. If you follow their instructions, as you insert the bore guide, the plastic on the end of the the small tube will be pushing against the ejector until you rotate it so that the ejector can slip into the slot.
There is a work-around. Pop the big plastic solvent port end off of the small tube and slide the small tube out of the big tube.
Gently insert the small tube into the chamber such that the ejector ends up sitting in the slot. Without the big tube restricting it's movements onto a collision course with your ejector, you should easily be able to get the ejector safely into the slot on the small tube without pushing against anything. Now slide the big tube overtop of the little tube and into the action. Finally, gently push the solvent port piece back onto the little tube.
Note: that ejector slot will leak solvent. To minimize this, I clean my rifle by setting the muzzle down onto a soft towel so that whatever solvent does leak from my cleaning patch still ends up running down the guide and into the bore. Since the bore guide just butts up against the wall of the barrel and does not actually enter the chamber, solvent tends to leak from there too so no matter what, you end up with some solvent in the action that you'll have to clean up later.
If anybody knows of a better bore guide - I'd be interested in hearing about them and learning how they address the standing ejector.
If you follow the instructions provided by StoneyPoint, you may end up damaging the ejector in your rifle.
Here is the StoneyPoint bore guide package that I recently purchased for use on my Savage 93R17BV:
You can't read the text through the shiney packaging because of the camera flash, but it reads: Fits .17 & .22 Caliber Rimfire Bolt Actions and of course the sticker on the package identifies as being for use on the Savage line of rifles.
The relevant portions of the instructions on the back of the package reads:
"Use care when installing the bore guide...especially the first time. At no time is force required to install the bore guide into your gun. Excessive force may bend or distort the standing ejector.
Note that a small locator groove (v-groove) is machined into both the small tube and the the large aluminum tubes. Holding the bore guide, rotate the small tube so that the two v-grooves are 180 degrees opposed from each other. Insert the bore guide assembly into the action with the large flat section (and the opening in the solvent port) facing down. Gently push both tubes of the bore guide fully forward in the action, until the smaller diameter tube rests against the barrel at the chamber. Now gently rotate the the solvent port (and small tube) 180 degrees so that the opening in the solvent port faces up. The slot in the bore guide will go over the standing ejector. [Here is a picture to help clarify. The notch cut into the plastic on the right end is the ejector slot]
Now clean your gun holding the bore guide snugly forward, against the barrel, as the cleaning implements pass from guide to barrel. Use the solvent port as a means to apply solvent to your patch or brush.
To remove the bore guide, rotate the solvent port to face down (thus clearing the standing ejector) and gently pull the assembly from the action. Use a rag or patch to clean any excess solvent from action, then replace bolt."
Here's the problem: the standing ejector on the Savage 93R17 is in the way. Maybe it isn't on a Savage .22 rifle, but it definately is on the 93R17's. If you follow their instructions, as you insert the bore guide, the plastic on the end of the the small tube will be pushing against the ejector until you rotate it so that the ejector can slip into the slot.
There is a work-around. Pop the big plastic solvent port end off of the small tube and slide the small tube out of the big tube.
Gently insert the small tube into the chamber such that the ejector ends up sitting in the slot. Without the big tube restricting it's movements onto a collision course with your ejector, you should easily be able to get the ejector safely into the slot on the small tube without pushing against anything. Now slide the big tube overtop of the little tube and into the action. Finally, gently push the solvent port piece back onto the little tube.
Note: that ejector slot will leak solvent. To minimize this, I clean my rifle by setting the muzzle down onto a soft towel so that whatever solvent does leak from my cleaning patch still ends up running down the guide and into the bore. Since the bore guide just butts up against the wall of the barrel and does not actually enter the chamber, solvent tends to leak from there too so no matter what, you end up with some solvent in the action that you'll have to clean up later.
If anybody knows of a better bore guide - I'd be interested in hearing about them and learning how they address the standing ejector.
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