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Posted: 9/28/2010 5:47:55 PM EDT
| I realize that these tools are not entirely necessary in order to maintain an ar bolt properly but I am intrigued by their proposed ability to do the job more effectively and efficiently. I see there are several manufacturers on the market but find the CAT M4 tool of greatest intrest. Does anyone here have any personal experience with this tool? Thoughts/Opinions much appreciated. |
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I realize that these tools are not entirely necessary in order to maintain an ar bolt properly but I am intrigued by their proposed ability to do the job more effectively and efficiently. I see there are several manufacturers on the market but find the CAT M4 tool of greatest intrest. Does anyone here have any personal experience with this tool? Thoughts/Opinions much appreciated. A bolt tool for what? Just take it apart. |
| I have one and it does as good a job of simply scraping carbon off quickly as any other tool. It does not get everything off. There is still a need to go back with a CLP like Slip 2000 EWL or Carbon Killer. If your in the field and need to or want to scrape your bolt it works. |
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I've got a tool for that, it's called an Olive Jar (tall, skinny, like a AR bolt). 1st thing I do when cleaning, is drop the whole bolt and carrier in a Olive jar of Hoppes #9. After cleaning the rest of the gun, I pull the bolt out of the jar, disassemble and brush with nylon brushes with CPL. I run my AR very wet with CPL and shoot 60-300 round per outing. Even after 300 rounds, after soaking, bolt cleaning is trivial.
This level of cleaning is probably unnecessary and excessive; but I enjoy it  .
Never heard of this "CAT M4 tool", but now I'm curious. Not that I think its something needed, but when I can't buy another AR, sometimes I settle for just buying a AR tool  .
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