what cleaning rods are you using?

[curan]

........I'm using plastic jags (for the moment)... it's hard to accidentally damage a barrel with them and you'll never have a false copper reading ..........

Where do you get these from Raven?

[The Raven]

........I'm using plastic jags (for the moment)... it's hard to accidentally damage a barrel with them and you'll never have a false copper reading ..........

Where do you get these from Raven?

I'm using the ones that came with some of my cheaper cleaning kits. Outers is one of the brands I have. They do the job, but aren't the most robust. Just don't break the jags thread off in the rod

[Curtley78]

I've never experienced cleaning rods flex as much as since having acquired my 17 AI Hornets and come to think of it, I've never seen a caliber that is so prone to fouling and so damned difficult to clean.

[trevort]

I'm not using any at the moment. Left them all at the bloody farm this morning!!

[trapper22]

Brendan Atkinson wrote an article awhile back in AS explaining how to straighten a cleaning rod with a electric drill! Maybe someone has the copy with this article?

[bigfellascott]

Brendan Atkinson wrote an article awhile back in AS explaining how to straighten a cleaning rod with a electric drill! Maybe someone has the copy with this article?

I think he used a lathe from memory and a couple of pieces of 4x 4 timber and just spun them and ran the timber down each side to take the bends out.

Something like that anyway - I reckon a drill would work too.

[big G]

Can some cleaver dick tell me how to straighten my cleaning rod,just bend another one on a dog that wouldn't stop barking.
Don't have a machining/engineering shop techno back ground.
Have two bricks that work on Camel's at my disposal,hammer,pliers,axe, and 100mph tape.
One fishing rod lath.
Big G.

[MISSED]

I use an electric drill a piece of wood about 2x1 with a hole drilled in one end .
Stick the rod through the hole then Chuck the non handle end in the drill and get someone to hold the drill and trigger while youhold the handle end.
Pull the Piece of wood towards you to put a bow in the rod and get your helper to trigger the drill.
Hold tension on the wood while the rod is spinning

See clear as mud

[big G]

I use an electric drill a piece of wood about 2x1 with a hole drilled in one end .
Stick the rod through the hole then Chuck the non handle end in the drill and get someone to hold the drill and trigger while youhold the handle end.
Pull the Piece of wood towards you to put a bow in the rod and get your helper to trigger the drill.
Hold tension on the wood while the rod is spinning

See clear as mud

I did the chuck thing,as it went though the air,it still wobbled and made a humming sound.
Still hit the barking dog
Thanks for help,I think

[Camel]

George, next time the dog gives you the shits, put the cleaning rod away and use the piece of bloody wood.

[MISSED]

Remove cleaning rod from rifle replace with a loades cartridge take Pluto for a one way walk ...............problem solved

[big G]

George, next time the dog gives you the shits, put the cleaning rod away and use the piece of bloody wood.

Roger that.
Big G

[big G]

Remove cleaning rod from rifle replace with a loades cartridge take Pluto for a one way walk ...............problem solved

So Pluto will be like the planet, Gooooooone. .
Bought two hundred Lap brass today for one of my builds we talked about.Sssshhhh.
Big G