Bolt Gun Cleaning Advice

[Windermere]

I thought I posted about this earlier but I think I forgot to hit post. if this shows up twice please delete one.

 

I just finished pillar bedding my stock to my savage 11.

 

I ran into a guy at the range that told me never to use brushes on a bolt gun rifle bore. Reasoning is that the brush drags the deposits across the bore surface and cause gouging, pitting, scratches. He said just to lube the bore and run patches. In my opinion, this will damage the bore more, and actually compress the deposits into the rifling of the bore.

 

i believe in using brushes. i used to wrench on cars full time and I'm familiar with carbon and keeping metal clean. I see no issue with using a nylon, or even brass brush on a pre-lubed bore to flush out all the junk and then running oily patches till clean.

 

Thanks for the advice in advance.

 

 

[geo.ulrich]

bronze core brushes are fine and use a good bore guide

[RS1]

Agree that a brush is fine. For any modern barrels with modern cartridges at any rate.

 

And second a good bore guide, preferably 1-piece rod.

[Windermere]

I’ll stick to my brushes. Don’t have a guide rod though. Just ordered one up on amazon

[45Badger]

Couple rotations of wet (Hoppes aftershave) and dry patches.

 

Wet patch, 5 passes with nylon brush, couple wet patches, couple dry patches.

 

Wet patch, sit overnight to get rid of some of the copper. I find that stripping all copper significantly changes where the first few shots land.

 

Oiled patch if putting away for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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