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Posted: 1/1/2005 8:16:37 AM EDT
I got to tell ya, I can't find anything wrong with these's if you want to give your gun a quickie, man they really clean out the barrels even the shot guns, any body else use them??
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I have recently come to realize ( with excellent advice from a board member) that the "Snake" should work best when used at the range while the barrel is still warm. This will knock out the vast majority of the gunk in the bore and save you tons of time when you get home, where you'll hardly have to use the bore brush at all. I had been using a Bore Snake exclusively on one of my ARs until I saw the error of that path. It took me a loooong time with a bore brush and solvents to get the chrome bore of my Bushie back to its proper state. I had forgotten that the Bore Snake is a helper, not a complete cleaning kit. 
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I'm not totally sold on them I find that if I run it through my gun 4-5 times and then run a patch. The patch is still black. It takes 6-7 patches to come clean AFTER the boresnake, regardless of how many passes I make with the snake. I do find the bore snake takes out a lot junk. If I don't boresnake, the first patch is real stiff and hard to push through. A couple passes of the bore snake and the first patch is much easier to push through. And it comes clean with 6-7 patches instead of 10-12 patches. Bottom line, They are handy. Easy to drop through the barrel in the field or at the range for a quick clean. But they don't really clean the barrel. I've tried them several ways. One way is saturating the floss in front of the brushes prior to pulling through. The other way was to spray a bore cleaner down the bore then pull the snake through. The later is more difficult, since the snake will not "Drop through" the barrel if you have sprayed a bore cleaner in the tube. It creates just enough friction to stop the lead from feeding down and out. |
| i recently got one since i lent my only cleaning kit to a friend. well , i have to say, its great for quickies, but i'd still run a few patches through aftrerwards when you get home, if you dont bring a rod with you... takes the grime and most of the other gunk, but leaves the fine stuff that ony fresh paches can get |
| I have one and they are easy to use, but I have one question. So you put some solvent on the snake and run it through a couple of times, but isn't the solvent still in the barrel? Leaving solvent in the barrel can be bad right? I have a chrome lined barrel. I would think use the snake to get the solvent into the barrel, then finish with a bunch of patches to get all the solvent out. Am I an idiot to be concerned about solvent being left in the barrel? |
The only solvents I've ever used that would be harmful to the barrel if left in for an extended period would be the agressive copper solvents. A CLP like BreakFree is supposed to be left behind so it can provide rust prevention. |
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