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Originally Posted by jsmaze
Bought a couple M&P 15-22 10rd mags on eBay, for $25 each. Little plastic things. Geez. Sold out everywhere else, though. What a year.
Also broke the trigger guard on the little savage 22 rifle trying to use a bore snake. I had the stock on the edge of a table while dropping it down and slipped - so, guess it's better to use your legs or just put it barrel down on the floor. Gorilla super glue should do the trick, but ohhhh the cursing.
I hate the bore snakes, are they really that much better than patches?
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I use bore snakes on my shotguns and as a quick maintenance cleaning on everything else to mostly prevent carbon rings in the throat/chamber. Patches and a good copper solvent are the only way to remove copper fouling from a barrel. I typically do a good copper cleaning once a year or when accuracy starts to degrade. A good quality barrel shouldn't need cleaning often at all and a little copper fouling actually helps accuracy.