What Size Cleaning Brush For 6.5 Creedmoor

Phillips Exion1967 · 02-xix-2019,06:24 PM

02-xix-2019,06:24 PM #ane

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Cleaning supplies for 6.v Creedmoor

I just picked up my first hunting rifle - a left-handed Savage xi TH XP in 6.five Creedmoor. I'thousand excited to get out to the range and shoot it when the rain clears upwardly, simply I'm having trouble finding a cleaning kit/supplies. Don't want to spend too much, and information technology would be overnice if I could lodge through Amazon. Anyone accept recommendations? I'm pretty new at this.
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02-19-2019,07:33 PM #2

Quality one-pc 40" or 46" clearing rod (Bore Tech, Tipton, Dewey, etc)
Bore Guide
6.5mm bore brushes
6.5mm jag
half dozen.5mm diameter mop (optional but recommended)
Bag of patches
Your pick of diameter cleaner and copper solvent
I don't recommend buying a "kit" as usually they're far from beingness high quality. Become yourself a small to medium fishing tackle box to put all of your cleaning stuff in (except the cleaning rods of course). For the cleaning rod(s) you can buy a pre-made instance like this one, or you tin can make your own out of PVC equally shown here.

FOr cleaning rod length I more often than not just match the overall length of the rifle (cage to rear of butt pad) as shut as possible. Cipher worse than buying a cleaning rod merely to have it show upwards and find it's a few inches short of what you lot demand.

I generally don't take my cleaning stuff to the range with me because rarely exercise I ever shoot the same burglarize enough in i trip that would warrant having to stop to make clean information technology. Instead I but clean my firearms when I get home before putting them abroad. As such I just have a rack that my cleaning rods hang from in my workshop since I'thou not dragging them to the range. I do withal keep a 3-pc .22cal aluminum cleaning rod in my range box merely in case I demand something to free upward a stuck case in the sleeping accommodation.

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02-19-2019,09:24 PM #3

Above - and I re-double the recommendation for a skillful quality jumpsuit rod. (Mine'south a Bore Tech V-Stix).

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02-20-2019,xi:05 AM #6

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Your Fell will probably shoot ameliorate with a little copper in the barrel to fill in the "railroad tracks" left by the rifling tooling. Butt intermission in is unnecessary. Merely shoot it and clean when your groups offset opening upwardly A LOT. Clean the butt thoroughly before your first range session and be sure to run a LIGHLTY oiled patch downwardly the barrel lastly, then ane dry patch before leaving for the range.
Get a bore guide https://www.brownells.com/gun-cleani...prod25927.aspx a chamber mop to dry out the chamber after cleaning. Foaming bore cleaner like Gunslick Foaming Bore Cleaner works smashing to clean out copper and powder residue and is available everywhere.

Hint: To employ the Gunslick Foam with the Possum Hollow boar guide, I institute that a 223 case makes an splendid adapter to fit the clear tubing of the Foam tin can. I had to drill out the terminate of the bore guide to fit the cervix of the 223 case, and cutting off the head. This delivers the foam where you want information technology and not all over everything.

A good set of nickel plated jags will eliminate false indications of copper when de-coppering your well fouled barrel. Go a one piece cleaning rod such as Tipton.

And lastly and perhaps nigh important, purchase an inexpensive endoscope photographic camera to look into the chamber and muzzle to confirm your cleaning methods. Without that, you're simply guessing as to the effectiveness of your methods. https://www.amazon.com/Depstech-Endo...+camera+iphone

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02-twenty-2019,07:05 PM #10

Originally Posted by Solid

Is there annihilation wrong with starting with a bore snake? Or will I regret that?

Diameter snakes are designed for a quick field cleaning, and only that. They aren't designed to exercise a thorough cleaning or intended to exist the primary ways of cleaning. They're good if you lot were out hunting in wet weather condition or something and y'all demand to brand certain at that place's no moisture in the bore at the end of the mean solar day, but no matter how many times you lot run i through it's not going to get out all the carbon or copper fouling buildup.

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02-20-2019,09:47 PM #xiii

I do carry a bore serpent in my solar day pack in case I slip and get mud or snow in the butt. Handy for a field cleaning.
If you drop information technology in from the breech I don't remember there is much danger of harming the muzzle crown from a lifetime of occasional utilize.