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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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never clean my gun barrels using forwards/backwards technique. I always put the rod only one way, towards the crown, then unscrew the brush and again… and again…
A drop of water eventually wears a hole in a rock..
I call BULLSHIT !
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.
Thx u sure!
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.
i've never cleaned a 22lr barrel. Maybe I should.
Like most of the comments apperantly this guy has no idea about the subject. I guess people make video on topics they know others know better.
Motion sickness from background moving around, couldnβt finish the video
Wait, so is it also not a good idea to dig a campfire hole with your 22 barrel?
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.
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.
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.π€£
Neither brass jag nor aluminum rod is not going to hurt the hardened steel on a rifle barrel.
Steel is harder than brass. Steel is harder than aluminum. Why will the brass or the aluminum rod part jag harm the steel? Is this video backed by metallurgical fact?
This gentleman is perpetuating a silly myth.
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.
Bullshit!!!!
Excellent advice π
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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.
Citified bullshit….ask an old '52 that's been cleaned with everything that you can dream of, and still throw a sub 1/4 at 50 yds
Lol, looking through comments, I'd already answered your take on firearms
Save your shit for the city folk, city boy. Brass, aluminum, carbon fiber…you will never get damage on any hardened carbon or stainless…you must be shooting that new lead barrel…
Simply not true.
Just more disinformation for the gullible.
Use an all-brass cleaning rod
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Bullshit
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..
lol running low on topics
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 .
Bore snake , wash it with dawn after a while to clean the bore snake π. 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 . πππππππ
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
A cleaning kit? Whats that?
"problem a lot of new shooters have" Nobody has evidence of this happening. Its a myth
The brush tip is brass but the push rod is steel
Everyone needs to stop perpetrating the myth that brass scratches steel it doesn't do anything but make gun owners look stupid as fuk
Sounds like a very large crock of shit. Brass on steel FFS
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:
BS
LOL π
So you are saying a soft piece of brass is going to damage a hardened steel barrel
Nah youβre on crack
I have a question for you guys is it possible you fire a 17hm2 out of a 22lr rifle cause i heard you can cause its just a 22lr casing slimed for 17grain bullets
Aluminium cleaning rods are an issue .it's oxide is extremely hard and will damage your gun !!