cleaning rod-bore guide

Get a one piece cleaning rod with either a screw on jag or a made on jag. If you get a made on jag you'll have to live with it, as is, but that's not so bad. Get another rod for brushing - same rod except threaded to screw in the brush. Buy as long a rod as you think you can stand. Never settle for one just long enough if you can help it. Some rods are expensive and some not so expensive. Some are good and some are not as good. Get a couple of one piece rods and glue up some PVC pipe for a rod holder. Be sure to leave the ends long enough and unglued so you can clean the tubes. Put a screw there or something...to keep the end caps on. Oh yeah, buy a rimfire rod!

Others will need to tell you where to get a bore guide but buy that first. You really need a bore guide that fits well and will come out when it gets hot!!! If others fail....I'll make some calls.
 
bore Guides

Some to consider

www.mwerksllc.com This one is great, a little more money but well worth it.
You will need to have a rod and know the size for the bushing.

Midway has
Possum Hollow & deweys bore guides

Brownells also carries some just do a search.

Or do a search on Bing or Google

Pete
 
Wilbur said:
Get a one piece cleaning rod with either a screw on jag or a made on jag. If you get a made on jag you'll have to live with it, as is, but that's not so bad. Get another rod for brushing - same rod except threaded to screw in the brush. Buy as long a rod as you think you can stand. Never settle for one just long enough if you can help it. Some rods are expensive and some not so expensive. Some are good and some are not as good. Get a couple of one piece rods and glue up some PVC pipe for a rod holder. Be sure to leave the ends long enough and unglued so you can clean the tubes. Put a screw there or something...to keep the end caps on. Oh yeah, buy a rimfire rod!

Others will need to tell you where to get a bore guide but buy that first. You really need a bore guide that fits well and will come out when it gets hot!!! If others fail....I'll make some calls.
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This is a great idea, Wilbur. Years ago I got a one piece with integral jag from Denny, just for patch work and never regretted it. No misalignment, no mismatched fittings, nothing to bend.
 
George Atkins said:
http://www.deweyrods.com/

Suggest using a smaller diameter rod..20,. 187 be sure to get the. 22 adapter.

George
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Why the .20 cal rod? I use one in my CZ 'cuz a .22 rod scrapes across the ejector, but otherwise I want something stiffer to keep it from flexing & dragging across the rifling. I like (and use) Pro-Shot & Dewey SS .22 rods.
 
I just found it worked better for me. I have a Dewey 22 coated but it started scuffing the coating off, even with the guide. The.20 does not. I find it plenty stiff enough, plus I flex it off the stock on my long barreled rifles. But any you mentioned are far and away better than thr three section rods.

George
 
Good advice on these sites but often conflicting..

Get a Dewey coated rod--long enough that the handle dont need to be jambed right to the 'bolt opening' to get thru the bore-probably want a 44", as I recall. Problem w/ LONG rods is whiippiness but that is why you have the bore guide among other reasons.

Bore huide-some metal, kost plastic.

Midway mentioned. They had at one time a body and different 'ends' for different guns/calibers. They have a "O" ring bet parts to keep liqs from leaking into the action. Pretty good feature.

Youve probably done this by now.. dont overclean, whatever that is.

Im still trying to work thru 'cleaning frequency'--once after each target vs something else.. Im at the something else stage.

We had a shooter get a new gun/barrel on a gun. He cleaned after each target. I told one of the other 'newer' shooters to walk over and observe his cleaning(s). Then ask the dumb question "do you use a new brush for each cleaning??"

I dont recall the answer but he got a funny look on asking. I actyually saw that recommendation, somewhere, a couple yrs ago.

Maybe Im so dumb that that is standard practice.. Anyone care to comment??
 
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Imo

A stainless steel one piece rod of sufficient length so you don't have to ride the handle up over the stock comb much if at all is what I use. I gave up on coated rods as they all eventually peel or get scuffed. Use a bore guide designed to fit your action and use slow, careful strokes, being careful to stop your forward momentum just after the patch or brush clears the muzzle. Then SLOWLY draw the jag or brush back into the bore for the return trip. Just work slowly and carefully and you should be fine. This is just my method, others may differ or disagree. One thing you'll find is that there seems to be as many opinions on things like this as grains of sand on the beach.
 
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Get yourself an Ivy rod. A 44" 22 cal. .187 threaded for an 8-32 tip. You don't need an adaptor. Just something else to misplace. Then get yourself a good guide for a .187 rod. A little spendy but just about the best I've found.

http://www.ivyrods.com/CleaningRODS.htm
 
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