I bought a S/H tikka .223 yesterday and was going to clean it today after a borescope shown lots of carbon build up. I purchased Parker hale rod and the bisley jag to fit both in .22. I used Parker hale .22 patches but I couldn’t for the life of me get the patches through. I tried dry, wet and putting it on the jag at the top middle and wrapping it.
It would just not feed into the barrel at all. When I tried cutting in half it then went into the barrel deeper and I couldn’t get it back out so had to smack the end of the rod as gently as I could.
Even when cutting the patches into 1/4 of the full size it would be so so tight and barely get a good contact to fully clean the barrel. When using just the rod and jag it glides through easy and no resistance at all. This was done with a bore guide to.
I don’t have any idea other than blaming my inexperience or is it down to the wrong jag/ patch combo.
Any suggestions ? Thanks
It would just not feed into the barrel at all. When I tried cutting in half it then went into the barrel deeper and I couldn’t get it back out so had to smack the end of the rod as gently as I could.
Even when cutting the patches into 1/4 of the full size it would be so so tight and barely get a good contact to fully clean the barrel. When using just the rod and jag it glides through easy and no resistance at all. This was done with a bore guide to.
I don’t have any idea other than blaming my inexperience or is it down to the wrong jag/ patch combo.
Any suggestions ? Thanks