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snuffy
Senior Member


Join Date: 05-20-2001
Location: Oshkosh wi.
Posts: 476

A bore snake, or other type of pull-through is possibly the worst thing you could do to a rifled bore. It's impossible to guarantee the rope stays centered in the bore. Because of the nature of a woven rope/string to pick-up abrasives, it can and will scrape along the bore of a rifle/handgun. I will not, under any circumstance use one on a rifled bore. For shotguns, they could be used, but the crown of a shotgun could be altered as well.

Get a good one piece rod, a bore guide, use it to clean after you get home. Or take it with you for a range session.

This is the same advice that was givin to me several years ago. Even a waist of time in a shotgun. W/o solvents there not going to pull the plastic build up at the muzzle end, which I consider more important then getting out a little unused powder.