Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

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Zeewulf
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Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:08 am

Seeing as im fairly new to the sport can you seasoned vets give me aby suggestions for buying a good quality cleaning kit that will do both .177 & .22
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Timmytree
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Re: Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:28 am

A pull through with different sized patches. Get hold of some 50lb fishing line and make a long loop knotted at one end, make it longer than the barrel!
Feed the end without a knot into a drinking straw, push that down the silencer until it meets the crown, push the loop through to the breech, pop in a patch and pull back through.
For a thorough clean use an oiled patch a couple of times and then a dry one til it comes out clean. Often just two pulls with a dry patch is enough. You can buy packs of patches or just cut some from an old cotton T shirt. Don't make them too big!

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Sake-san
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Re: Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:20 pm

And don't clean it too often, groups opening up is one tell tail, most barrels like a bit of lead residue.
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rogers1
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Re: Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:51 pm

I personally use Ballistol as my gun care liquid.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballistol-Unive ... B009L3E1Z2

I bought my 500ml can when it cost me about £8.50 (around eight years ago) I still have about half of it left.
I keep a small plastic bottle of it in my shooting kit, and a 4" square of old tee shirt in a ziploc bag.

It is truly astounding stuff and can be used on wood, leather, metal, plastics, skin (it is a very good disinfectant)

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Dudda
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Re: Cleaning Kit Suggestions.

Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:00 am

I have used several kits but the one I think are the absolute best is the patchworm.
http://www.patchworm.com
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