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<blockquote data-quote="Hand Skills" data-source="post: 2247818" data-attributes="member: 103303"><p>To me, there is cleaning, and then there is field cleaning.</p><p></p><p>To clean a rifle barrel, short of electrolysis, a one piece rod (with jag and a nylon brush) is a pretty good way to go.</p><p></p><p>...but for those boneheaded times I fall in a creek or somehow end up with a rifle full of muck or snow ... A bore snake has proven handy. They are not great for clearing obstructions, but in concert with a small stick, will get the job done (at least to the point where I don't flinch when it comes time to pull the trigger). I have a few sizes, but usually I just pack the .22 cal - it seems to work, and it's not as hard to pull through.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I am just a wuss, but I feel like going undersize on the bore snake makes it less likely for me to hurt the barrel (or myself <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />).</p><p></p><p>Kind of curious about the fishing line and a patch - how does that work? Does someone make a jag for that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hand Skills, post: 2247818, member: 103303"] To me, there is cleaning, and then there is field cleaning. To clean a rifle barrel, short of electrolysis, a one piece rod (with jag and a nylon brush) is a pretty good way to go. ...but for those boneheaded times I fall in a creek or somehow end up with a rifle full of muck or snow ... A bore snake has proven handy. They are not great for clearing obstructions, but in concert with a small stick, will get the job done (at least to the point where I don't flinch when it comes time to pull the trigger). I have a few sizes, but usually I just pack the .22 cal - it seems to work, and it's not as hard to pull through. Maybe I am just a wuss, but I feel like going undersize on the bore snake makes it less likely for me to hurt the barrel (or myself 😂). Kind of curious about the fishing line and a patch - how does that work? Does someone make a jag for that? [/QUOTE]
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