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A common mistake can damage your .22LR

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Many .22LR rifle owners push their cleaning rods TOO FAR down the barrel — and when they pull it back, the cleaning jag may attack the “crown” (where your rifle grooves stop at the tip of the muzzle). This close-up video shows how your cleaning equipment can CHIP AWAY the crown.

(The owner of the rifle in this video has cleaned it so many times, he’s lost count. He buys the more expensive cleaning rods & jags that are milled to more exact tolerances.)

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45 COMMENTS

  1. I call BS. Cleaning rods are plastic and aluminum with brass jags. There is no way that something softer than steel can damage steel. If it is the Case I will be using aluminum and brass cutting tools on Lathes from now on.

  2. The other thing to take into consideration is most standard factory made .22 LR barels are made from soft metals,cleaning the rifle bore too much can damage the barrel rifiling. I only clean my .22 lr barrel after every 200 rounds has been put through it if it is fouled up.

  3. Brass doesn't harm hardened steel. There is a video here on YouTube where a person uses a drill and brass brush to showcase this fact. Using the drill, he spins the brass brush for quite some time at the end of the barrel, sometimes at an angle. Upon review with a bore camera, no damage was seen. However, it was very clean.

  4. Please explain how a brass, aluminum or coated rod and/or jag – or even a steel military rod – will erode the chrome/moly grades of high carbon steels gun barrels are made of. Or for that matter, how the cheap grades of stainless steel used to manufacture some cleaning rods could damage a gun barrel.

  5. I'd like to see how brass or aluminum is going to gouge steel, LOL. You ever think thats why they are made of soft metal? Some people just have to spread garbage. I've been cleaning guns since 1960 that way, you think I wreaked em all. What about a bronze tight fitting brush? On mY stop the carnage.🤣

  6. Lol. The rod is supported over the entire length of the barrel, yet the tiny force acting on the steel crown by an aluminum or brass rod is gonna screw everything up? I highly doubt it.

  7. I am glad this video is not deleted, it is a good example of one of the bull$hit myths this guy was spreading. He obviously knows nothing about rifles to come out with such bull$hit.

  8. I Literally beat the fuck out metal objects ranging from mild steel to alloys that are so hard tungsten carbide milling tips dont phase them with Brass/Aluminium drifts and the brass and Alluminium comes off 2nd best every time..

  9. I have a Remington 22 that was made way back in the early 40s. I bought it used and I'm almost sure that it was never cleaned like this. The barrel is fine. Hard to imagine that a brass tip or an aluminum rod could damage a steel barrel .

  10. Bore snake , wash it with dawn after a while to clean the bore snake 🐍. A .22 bore snake has made life easier for cleaning barrels . I just leave one in the gun bag and do it right there in the field , done deal . 👍👍👌🙄🐍🐍🐍

  11. 6 to 8 thousand rounds! Can you imagine cleaning your gun? It would never end . Oh the guy before me STOP using the Lord's name in vain. Use your mom's name since your into breaking His commandments

  12. Bullshit. This is one of those myths that just don't want to die out.

    Take a new, out of the box, directly from the factory .22LR rifle and inspect the muzzle under a microscope. Do the same for a barrel that has been shot and cleaned carelessly for decades and compare. Change is that the old barrel's muzzle will look better than the new one with all its rough machining marks. After all, it is mass production. That is why a barrel with a few hundred rounds through it shoots more accurately than a new one.
    This video came up after I gave my comment:

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