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From: hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: A comment about rifle/pistol cleaning
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Date: 23 May 91 15:45:32 GMT
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In article <34795@mimsy.umd.edu> snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth) writes:
#  ...
#Why not just use a guide for the rod ? It looks like a cork with a hole in the
#middle and plugs into the muzzle. It keeps the rod from the bore.

  Cleaning guides are made both for the muzzle (needed for many/most)
semi-automatics, and for the breech (convenient for bolt action.)
They do an excellent job of keeping the rod from the bore in the
area where the rod enters.  This is important because there can be
severe abrasion in that area (and the muzzle crown is a place where
asymmetrical enlargement is particularly harmful to accuracy.)
However the rod will bow a bit when you push on it, and so the rod will 
always do some rubbing on the bore.  For this reason you want to keep 
the rod clean of abrasive material, etc., so as to minimize the abrasion.

  Cleaning rod guides and good quality cleaning rods are available
from any supply house which emphasizes "accuracy" shooting - including
bullseye, silhouette, and benchrest.  You'll see ads for these places
in popular magazines like Rifle and Handloader (rather than in the
mass circulation gun magazines.)
#
#Peter Toth

--henry schaffer  n c state univ