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Could very well be a hybrid of Ron Jeremy, Ted nugent and the brawny man.
As another FNG myself, I have found this thread to be both amusing and informative. However, I remain somewhat perplexed regarding the appropriate way to clean my guns. I have more dumb questions. 1) What is a bore brush used for if not to clean out the bore? 2) If a bore can withstand tens of thousands of rounds of lead and copper scraping down the sides at high vilocities what is wrong with a brass brush once in a while? 3) Why do some people become apoplectic when hearing that I want to clean my bore from the muzzle? Thank you in advance.
1) You can also use a bore brush to clean carbon out of case necks as part of brass preparation.
2) It's not the brass brush, it's the steel cleaning rod.
3) If you cram said steel cleaning rod in from the muzzle, and it's misaligned, you can damage the very end of the rifling. This is bad because the end of the rifling is the last part of the rifle which the bullet touches. Cleaning from the muzzle can also push gunk and solvent back into the receiver.
I don't know as much as most of the folks here but think I've done the same thing early on.......and I'm still kicking and shooting. And loving it.
Bet you're fine to go.
Just be prudent, as I am with new/experimental reloads or questionable hardware.........wear glasses/goggles and of course your ear protection.
Like your comment on reloading, haha!^Exactly. I was just going to ask how you got it thru the barrel??
On an unrelated side note, reloading maybe isn't in the cards for you.
And like your subnote below.........All bleeding eventually stops. Fact!
More to the story, didnt want to type a essay...rifle brush and pistol brush had different threads, he put the rifle brush on the wrong cleaning rod, didnt seat all the way...so threads were exposed, and when he encountered a lil stiffness, he "tapped" the rod with a hammer(he is 80 and this made sense to him...) breaking at the threads, stuck in mid barrel...then, proceded to try to hammer it out with another alum cleaning rod, making a mushroomed fucking mess....I put a SS rod up to it , from either direction, and can not get any movement...I asked the ol fart, how fuckng hard did ya hammer on this??
So all of that^ had nothing to do with:
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Whatever, I need coffee. Have a good freaking Friday.
Dude how the fuck did you manage to get a chamber brush through the bore?!?!
I can't fit a fucking .22 jag with a supposed .22 sized patch down a couple of my barrels without beating the end of the rod with a rubber mallet!!
At least you know she's all cleaned up now.
And to calm your fears that the rifle is utterly destroyed, it is. It is going to be super fuckered now. Sorry man. As my Pop always said, "educations cost."
I'm kidding. It's fine. If it's not, it's just an excuse to buy a really nice barrel and screw it on.
I can't fit a fucking .22 jag with a supposed .22 sized patch down a couple of my barrels without beating the end of the rod with a rubber mallet!!
At least you know she's all cleaned up now.
And to calm your fears that the rifle is utterly destroyed, it is. It is going to be super fuckered now. Sorry man. As my Pop always said, "educations cost."
I'm kidding. It's fine. If it's not, it's just an excuse to buy a really nice barrel and screw it on.
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