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Looking for a bore guide for a Winchester 69A Rimfire. I bought a Possum H. # 92 but had to return it….too big. Have measured the bolt and it is .588. Reached out to Possum H but no luck finding one for a 69A. All I have found so far . Someone suggested making one but don’t have any tools to do that. Need some help.

Contact Sinclair International or Brownells and ask them.

https://www.brownells.com/tools-cle...nclair-rimfire-guides-for-22-long-rifle/

You can try giving boretech a call (see attached link at bottom) and give them your gun specs if they don’t have one that fits your gun they do advertise that they will make you a custom bore guide. Let us know what you find out.





https://www.boretech.com/products/bore-guide-bolt-action-rimfire

Not a lot of guys running a bore guide for their little 22s? A lot of times, I just run an otis through mine a few times and call it good. I'm wondering if other guys are doing this for their 22's as well? I know for my 17's, it's a lot easier to do this. Just wondering what you guys are doing? Maybe it will give the OP a better idea on how to go about this?

Possum Hollow #208 fits Win 69A

Out of Canada

https://www.nordicmarksman.com/Possum-Hollow-Bore-Guide-22LR.html

Try Sinclair International. At one time they stocked guides for both the 82 and 84 models. However if they are no longer stocked they will custom build whatever you need. The custom built guides are not cheap and it takes time for delivery but they are of very high quality.

I mostly use an Otis — it’s especially useful on a Ruger 10/22 because it is a real pain to use a rod on one of those.

I agree WoodsyAl. That's all my 10/22's get. Even though my custom 10/22 clone has a hole in the rear for a rod. I have a few thousand rounds on my Kidd barreled 10/22, and accuracy has not faltered or degraded in any way that I can tell.. I realize that is not many rounds on the barrel, but that's my method. To they eye, the bore still looks like new. I don't own a bore scope.

That's one of the most recent groups I shot with my 10/22.


But, as I was thinking about the OP's issue (wanting to have a bore guide). My mind wondered about what would work:

1. One of those old plastic bic pen bodies.
2. Thick straw, sold on ebay. You can buy 10 of them for like $10.00.

Now, some guys can laugh about that, but sometimes you need to be able to think outside the box a little.. Most times, I'll make my own tool, if I can't buy one at the store. Or when I need it right now..

BSA…last weekend my KIDD got flat hammered on. I rekkon it had every bit of 1000 rounds thru it.

Anyway I’ve pulled a few patches OTIS style thru it but it had been a while since I addressed the carbon ring buildup. I pulled one patch just to clean powder residue and sent the scope down and the barrel was clean as a whistle almost the entire way. Not a hint of lead. Then I got to the chamber! Hahaha man it was darker than my sense of humor…

I’ve got some work to do…



As a side note my brother was beating fairly hard on his relatively newly acquired KIDD but with a lilja barrel.

We shot several groups with several different varieties of ammo. All groups were shot using the same box of the same ammo. I think we both agreed there was no appreciable difference between the two barrels in accuracy..

He’d edge my by a hair with X brand then I’d edge him with Y brand. But no real standouts. Both shot very well and again, not a single friggen hiccup with FTF or FTE.