Cleaning your rifle: Advice wanted

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Segm3nt

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Hello All,

Been here for a week, made a purchase of a ruger gsr .308 (ruger 6829). I have some questions on cleaning the rifle. My experience was with the marines, using issued buttstock cleaning kit and clp.

I noticed watching videos of cleaning and reading about how to clean, it is very different from how I was trained. Below is a list of my questions:

-Punching the bore... I was always told to do this in one direction, rear to front. Never from front to rear and back again. I was told how to do this to protect the threading of the rifle. To me every video I've seen is doing it wrong and ruining there rifles haha, so please explain!

-Is CLP sufficient? Or is using a solvent necessary also?

Again, my experience was my training in the marines. I get my rifle on monday, would like to clean it properly before going to the range! Thanks!

-Trav
 
CLP works fine as a solvent and lube. I usually do a copper cleaning solvent every thousand rounds or so but that's probably overkill.

As far as rods and stuff, I use a rod with a plastic bristle brush wet with CLP to loosen up the powder fouling. Once that's had time to set, I clean it out by punching the bore with a couple patches like you were taught. One more patch with a little CLP on it to protect the bore and that's it for the barrel.

Bore guides never made much sense to me as the hot gases and particles of burning powder are way tougher on the throat of the rifle than anything you're going to do with a rod. I personally don't like bore snake things as that seems to be like reusing tolit paper.

BSW
 
Regarding this topic, there are more variations than you can shake a stick at. Many ways to do it right and many ways to screw it up. My guess is that the Marines emphasized the one directional approach to avoid changing directions mid way (which can really be a pia). I personally find clp's to be very effective and have used them almost exclusively on all my firearms. There are a number of good ones available and lots of information on-line. Do some research and you'll eventually come up with your own witches brew. In the mean time your Marine training will no doubt serve you well.
 
My understanding is that the rod should be inserted from the rear to eliminate the chance of damaging the crown at the muzzle. I've never heard that a brush shouldn't be pulled from the muzzle to the chamber after first having been pushed from the rear.
 
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