Bore snake in barrel

[Mike L]

Surely sensible people buy one long enough that there’s always part of the main body sticking out either end of the barrel……… so it can’t get stuck???!

 

[bullet chucker]

Genuine Bore Snakes of correct cal for me, had an accuracy issue with the 6.5 just after lock down, I "Tried" to pull the bore snake through and it stuck about midway it was never this tight before!. I had to secure the string to a secure point then pull the rifle away to get it out! used it again and again and again it then became easier after the next couple of passes. So contrary to the horror stories above mine is a compliment to a product that put my rifle back on song. My guess is unfortunately I had a build up of rust, I have been given 3 hail Mary's and several other penances to perform for such a Mortal Sin?

BC.

 

[Mike996]

I use them regularly on my rifles and shotgun with no problem but I only buy genuine Hoppes ones. There are probably other good makes, but I wouldn't buy the cheaper unknown makes.

 

[Corvid8x57]

I hate to point this out but are you a slow learner . Everyone has heard these stories but they still use them. What is so inconvenient about a rod and disposable patches that people want to keep pulling the same dirty thing through their barrels until it gets old and breaks.

I know -hope over experience!

 

[HallyButt]

Well I'm guessing there must be different makes of what we generically term a "bore snake".
But if anyone (gunsmith included) were to suggest that the inner on any of the bore snakes I own could "ruck up", causing the snake to get stuck in the barrel, I'd know they were talking absolute nonsense. Because there is no inner.
Maybe yours was just a different make of snake, manufactured in a different way?

(Edit: having just had another look at mine, I see that the doubled over loop at the opposite end from the pull cord does pass inside the snake for a portion of its length. So presumably that's the inner you're referring to? If so, my apologies. I hadn't noticed that. I was looking at the pull cord end, which is where people seem to have problems).

Make perfect sense, no apology needed, the hoppes one blocked solid from the end of the chamber with only the paracord out of the barrel end but had somehow rucked up that it wouldn’t shift either way, was a ¾ day soak in god knows what solvent for gunsmith to get it out. Trulock are expensive but to be fair the guys know their stuff.

 

[Greenmist]

I use them for all my rifles to remove loose crud, one thing I do is remove the wire brush as I don't think its that effective

 

[finnbear270]

A pull through can fit in a shirt pocket, I reckon carting a rod along on a stalk would be a little bit inconvenient.
The amount of inclement weather we get in the UK, rust forming in the barrel can be well on the way before getting a decent cleaning patch through back at the motor.

 

[stephen quinn]

My friend loads during the season and his tip if you use one is to tie a piece of para cord to the other end so if it snaps you can always pull it back out but there not good bits of kit and yes I agree once used there full of crud and dirt until washed much better with patches and rods I my self bought a German one which is wire insulated and a tin full of felt pellets for the correct bore size great for cleaning oil out after storage also when doing a proper clean with solvents and the like in a tin about the size of a air gun pellets very handy and does a good job

 

[Bavarianbrit]

My friend loads during the season and his tip if you use one is to tie a piece of para cord to the other end so if it snaps you can always pull it back out but there not good bits of kit and yes I agree once used there full of crud and dirt until washed much better with patches and rods I my self bought a German one which is wire insulated and a tin full of felt pellets for the correct bore size great for cleaning oil out after storage also when doing a proper clean with solvents and the like in a tin about the size of a air gun pellets very handy and does a good job

VFG are the maker.

 

[kenbro]

My friend loads during the season and his tip if you use one is to tie a piece of para cord to the other end so if it snaps you can always pull it back out but there not good bits of kit and yes I agree once used there full of crud and dirt until washed much better with patches and rods I my self bought a German one which is wire insulated and a tin full of felt pellets for the correct bore size great for cleaning oil out after storage also when doing a proper clean with solvents and the like in a tin about the size of a air gun pellets very handy and does a good job

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[The Tartan Torpedo]

This is one of those threads I want to unread, now I am thinking about this happening. Glad it worked out for you.

 

[Ratel]

Don't push but pull!

Back a long time ago if a pull through* got stuck (the WWI andWWII through to the early 1950s British Army version of what is now called a bore snake) the armourer had a special long rod with a hook on the end to pull the wretched thing out.

Which is why it had three loops on it. The 4x2 or "fourbytwo" went in the middle loop. Or in extremis the 4" x 2" piece of wire gauze wrapped in a S shape around the two cords of that middle loop.

* When not in use it lived in the rifle butt with the soldier's oil bottle. The butt trap not just being there so an armourer could access the stock bolt but also to store pull through and oil bottle.

So don't push but pull!

Used to be ,"Put on a charge" for that offence.