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I take an old plastic jug, cut a hole in its side, and slide the muzzle inside. Toss after use. No muss, no fuss.

I am liking the Pro-Shot one piece stainless rods. Stiff, good bearings, and small enough handle to clear the stock. Just me.....

Another vote for Bore Tech, for all the reasons already mentioned.

Steve

Are you sure you got the .22 size rod? I have both .22 and .30 size rods and never had a problem. I clean everything under .30 with the .22 rod, including a AR15 and a custom 220 Swift with no problems.

I did have to use smaller patches with the Tipton jags.....

I have a few Deweys and I think the bearings and handles are crap. The have balls riding against plastic. The best rods I have are Bore Tech but there may well be better ones.

Most of my guns don't even see a rod anymore. An overnight soak with Wipeout, and one zip with a Boresnake and you are done.

Tipton for me!!!!

I have been using Muzzlemate for a number of years after finding black curtains really excited my wife...and not in a good way.

These sorts of threads always amaze me, because so many posters firmly state ONE cleaning rod (or cartridge, bullet, scope, rifle, venison recipe, strip joint, etc.) is superior to anything else--without any back-up information about how they came to this firm conclusion.

I must have 25-30 cleaning rods, some made as far back as the 1970's and some from the past year. The handles on some don't twirl as well as others, and some are coated and some not. They have all worked to clean a bunch of bores, and since I also have a bore-scope I've found the rumors about cleaning rods wearing out barrels are just that, rumors. As Butch noted, shooting wears out barrels, not cleaning rods.

I have used the same three rods for everything from 22lr to 30-06, I just change ends and boreguides.

Never had an issue with flex, tapping, or binding...never stuffed any barrels either.


ps, I did try a Proshot years ago but it was nowhere near as good as my old steel Parker Hales, actually...it was a piece of rubbish.

i have about 30rods every size available i think. i use the deweys more than the others. i showed up at a auction a few years ago and they were selling a whole hand full of dewey rods at one time. i bought 7 of them for 10.00.

All Rods are not the same Diameter and neither are the Jags . You also have to optimize the shape , material , and size of the Patch ( I like Proshot Patches )with the particular Jag you are using .... I have not tried any of the new Triangular Patches which are not supposed to stick yet , but will probably order some . Anyway , my old Dewey Rods work fine for 22 and larger , not so fine for 20 and 17 .....they Kink ! I like the Tipton for the small Calibers , but as mentioned in previous Posts ( they can blow apart and stick you ) so I'm going to use some sort of thick glove ....just in case . I also like the Bore Tech and Kleen Bore Rods , and have heard the Ivy is the Rolls Royce of Rods , but have never seen one . I can't remember but I think the Ivy is Spring Steel . If I were starting from scratch , I guess I would just follow Butches advice .

As with scopes, if the cost of your cleaning rod doesn't exceed the cost of the rifle, you can't consider yourself serious about the whole business.

True that!

why would anyone need or want 30 cleaning rods?

Perhaps, as a writer, to stay on top of what is currently offered?

I just counted mine out in the shop, and was kinda surprised that I own 14 - 11 rifle (some one-piece, some segmented) and 3 pistol.

I think you should use as large a diameter rod as is possible for each caliber. I wish they made better cleaning rods for big bores and shotguns. I hate patching out my 17, it's like trying to push a piece of pasta through the barrel!

If you are perhaps thinking Carbon Fiber might, in some way, be less abrasive than steel or plastic coated steel or aluminum think again. I make knives as a hobby, using carbon fiber as bolster or handle material. The only way you can cut it is to use the same bandsaw I use to cut my blade steel...the carbon fiber will eat up a regular wood cutting blade...it can be tough stuff, and it will abrade the soft (in relative terms) barrel steel.

Glad you posted this. In the old days when I was in the machine shop daily the cutters were eaten up by the carbon fiber. We had to use Carbide cutters. If I used a carbon fiber rod, I would worry about barrel wear.

I'm glad you posted this as well. I pointed this out a couple years ago and got the wrath of the Tipton rod supporters who hadn't had their cleaning rods long enough to figure this out.