Bore Snake Bonanza
February 1, 2007|
Hoppe's Bore Snake may be the best weapon cleaning tool ever invented. When we deployed to Iraq in 2004, a high-speed sergeant in my platoon had one of these and it got passed around all year. Just drop the weighted end of the rope down through the chamber, and pull it through the bore. The brushes are built in, and the soft part of the snake acts as cleaning patches to make the inside of your barrel sparkle. You can use any kind of solvent on it, or just run it dry, and when it gets dirty, stick it in your cargo pocket (to keep it from wrapping around the agitator) and machine wash. They come in every caliber imaginable, including .50 cal and all shotgun gauges. 5.56mm is .22 cal, 7.62 is .308.
I asked my wife to send me one when I was deployed, but she got the wrong thing (thanks anyway, honey) so I actually tried to make one out of 550 cord and some thicker nylon cord. It kind of worked, but when I went home on leave I made sure to get the real thing. Together with some spray Teflon lube (Remington makes some called "Rem dri-lube"), we all had clean bores and well-lubricated bolts.
Best deal out there is from project bore snake, a non-profit.
Posted by: Bill Redheffer | February 06, 2007 at 06:08 AM
How neat! I used something nearly identical to clean my clarinet in band. Not scratchy, though.
/non-soldier
Posted by: Cera | March 15, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Was at the gunsmith with my SKS. She showed me his and how well it worked on my SKS. Bought it on the spot and keep it in the new stock I have for my SKS.
It really works.
Posted by: T.E.Chester | June 12, 2007 at 11:10 AM
A bore snake is a fine thing but it does NOT clean the chamber, and if you don't clean that, you will have a club with brass stuck in the chamber. That was true in 1979 when I got in, and it is true today.
Posted by: Tim England | July 13, 2007 at 04:34 PM
you can get these for free, check out:
http://projectboresnake.org/
And get all the barrel sizes you need. I had enough for my whole squad shipped for all of our weapons for FREEEEEE!
Posted by: Jay | January 13, 2008 at 02:15 PM
"A bore snake is a fine THING but it does NOT clean the CHAMBER, and if you don't clean that, you will have a CLUB with BRASS stuck in the chamber.
Yeh, this has been a problem up on the HILL too:)
Posted by: UNO | February 26, 2008 at 07:50 PM