I moved this here to keep from hi-jacking the What have you bought thread.
I bought two cleaning kits for my AR. I have tried, twice, to clean the barrel using the brushes. Once with a rod, the second time using the flexible thingy. No way on earth could I get the brush down the barrel. Both times, I got the rod less than an inch into it. It wouldn't go any further, and I had the wife hold it, and sit on it, to get the brush back out the end of the barrel.
Either I'm missing something, or the videos out there are BS. Is it absolutely necessary to lock the AR in a vice to clean the damn thing? I truly believe, even if I had a vice, the brushes wouldn't go down the length of the barrel. Stumped.
Vise. I think you mean vise.
Vice, that''s like smoking and gambling and such,
You have to have the right size. I think that may be your problem. Your brush is too big.
They come in all different sizes for various calibers (inside diameter).
A rack can be helpful, a rack or stand.
That's what I use.
But, if I get a patch over a brush, sometimes, it can get stuck.
Get a smaller size brush.
dc
I have both, George. I've only tried the one on the right, no way would it go. Not about to try the one on the left.
Do I need to get a .22 sized brush? To clean the solvent out of it, I used a cloth to put it in, and to clean it out. I don't think either of those kits have a .22 or 308 in them, but I'll check.
I watched a show on Sportsman. A female was showing how to clean one with it locked in a vise. She put a 'snake' in from the front end of the barrel, put the brush on and pulled back it through. Cleaned it with a couple cloths the same way.
I have a chamber brush marked .223 like gdmoody's picture above (forget the brand). It is too tight and I can't use it. I think I'll get a 308 so I don't waste the brush.
I checked my kits, the only thing I have with a .22 mark on it is a small brass rod with three groves in it?
I haven't tried a bore snake. Assuming ya feed it down the barrel and pull it back.
Read this: If difficult to pull through bore, it may be easier to step on the exposed end of the bore cleaner and hold it while pulling the firearm... Price is right for sure.
Standard cleaning tools work fine in my 223 AR. Sounds like the "KITS" are for looks, not use.
Any centerfire rifle I have (and I have lots!) is not bore cleaned well with anything less than the following procedure, in my opinion:
I start with MPRO-7. Then use Sweets ammonia bore solvent. Then Hoppes #9. Then gun oil.
A MPRO-7 patch down the bore to wet it. MPRO-7 wetted bore brush passed through the barrel in both directions at least 10 time. MPRO-7 wetted patch to remove the junk from the brushing. Dry patch. Sweets ammonia solvent on several patches until no more blue on patches. Dry patch. Hoppe's on one patch to remove ammonia cleaner. Dry patch. Oil dampened patch.
Even with all of this there is still remnants of copper in the barrel (not all that visible) in the corners of the rifling. Is all this necessary? I don't know but it is what I have settled on over the last 30 years. And believe me I have tried everything. There is no magic solvent or process that takes the work out of cleaning rifle bores. It takes both effort and time.
It's not the Rod. It fits OK. It's the .223 brush. Some mentioned using a .22 brush. I don't have one. So far, the only luck I've had, is using solvent and cleaner with a cloth, using the rod.
I'm gonna hit the LGS this weekend and find me a brush that fits. Gonna take the AR with me.
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