That is great that your daughter bought you a new rifle cleaning rod. You must have done something right when you raised her. :bthumb:

 

Congratulations on your new rod and your daughter.

Now I'm wondering if carbon fiber would harm the rifling at the muzzle.
Does anyone have the skinny on those??

 

bugeye , Carbon fiber is not as good as coated steel and coated steel is not as good as a nice stainless rod . The only thing better than a nice stainless rod is carbon fiber! I hope this helps.

 

No, it was no help.
If carbon fiber is not as good as coated steel, how can it be better than stainless??

 

Carbon Fiber cleaning rod is less likely to harm the muzzle than a steel or brass rod. I use a Dewey cleaning rod and a Tipton for my 17 HMR. I like them better than my brass cleaning rod. I also have a couple of military style jointed metal cleaning rods. I broke my brass cleaning rod trying to clean my 17 HMR Savage.

I try to clean my rifles from the breach but some rifles you can’t. I use bore snake mostly on my 22 rimfire 10/22 and Winchester 190. I’ve used cleaning rods through the muzzle on my Ruger Mini 14, 10/22 and 190 but try to use care not to hurt the crown.

 

I have several Tipton cleaning rods and love them but I still use a bore guide with them or any other cleaning rod.
I use nylon pull-thru rods on my 10/22 rifles.

 

I don't mean to steal the OP's thread.

I was hoping to find a rod that wouldn't harm the crown.
I guess I need to get a rifle vise so I would have a third hand when using my homemade rod guide at the muzzle.

Thanks gentlemen, sorry OP.

 

A buddy and me were in a gun shop in Klamath Falls, Oregon a couple months ago while on a sage rat scouting trip... in the middle of the shop there was a box with a whole bunch of coated stainless rods in all kinds of colors- I'm assuming he got them from guys selling their gun collections and throwing them into the mix or garage sales or????? Anyway, he had them priced at $1 each but they were all .22 rods except for one and I have a couple good .22 rods already so I passed.....

 

Use of a bore snake.

My thoughts: When you use a bore snake, feed it into the muzzle and out the chamber. Reason, if you pull from the muzzle it is unlikely you will pull in such a straight line that you won't have pressure on part of the muzzle. Pulling from the chamber end, the loose end going into the muzzle won't have any pressure on it and is less likely to cause wear. Same kind of reason why you use a rod when cleaning a bolt action rifle from the backside.

I really believe more harm is done by frequent heavy cleaning than folks realize. Except for the serious benchrest crowd, a pass to wet the bore, a pass or two with a soft brush (one direction, remove brush and withdraw rod) followed by a pass with a dry patch to remove the Hoppes, a pass to apply oil and a final pass to remove excess oil is all that I think is needed. And not necessarily done after each day at the range.

 

Hang around a cleaning thread long enough and you will find out exactly what I mean!

 

Now I get it. Sometimes you have to hit me in the face with a wet mop to get my attention.

 

Now I’m confused!! I was basically happy I got a rifle related gift, especially from my daughter…

 

Nice gift from your daughter.

A nice gift from your daughter. Threads have a way of taking off. Hope no offense, none intended. David

 

I own two Tipton's - one for rifles, one for pistols. Really like them both.

Good on your daughter.

 

Carbon fiber will not damage steel!

 

But the grit they embed in their surface will, as with polished stainless steel, wipe often and well.

 

I like the Tipton cabon fiber rod. Constructed well, will hold up to wrapping copper or bronze wool around a brush and using a rubber hammer (numerous times) to tap down the barrel for lead removal. Can't say that about the Dewey. The Tipton takes a licking and keeps on ticiking. My next rod will be a Pro Shot polished, I just like the way the rod stop looks.

 

I bought one of these for my 17s https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08928YJG4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Otherwise i use one of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MX5ZCI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wipe both off after eack pass.

And i dont take a rubber mallet to either of them

 

I spend more time shooting than I do posting. :bthumb:

 

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