Finally found an Outers #600 Duraluminum cleaning rod kit in the tube on Ebay, a BIN for ten dollars plus five for shipping. Tube looks good from photos, rods and handle look good, only has the slotted jag end for using the patch, but not the solid jag.

One was handed down to me along with a Stevens 87A, my step great grandfather's rifle. Foolishly I lost the cleaning kit, I think my M-I-L may have tossed it in the late 70's in some things I left at their house when we moved out west. S*** happens, my own fault for leaving it behind.

Started thinking about it a long time ago but never found another one. Been watching yard sales and recently Ebay. Really fired me up when I see a friend has one in his collection, knew I had to have another to go with my rifle.

Four people were watching it yesterday, could not understand why nobody pulled the trigger on it. They usually are in the 25-40 dollar range plus shipping. Recent ones have the cardboard tubes that look like they have gotten wet and the aluminum rods filthy or like the other one listed has bent rods.

So my Savage may again have the correct vintage cleaning rod to go with it. That made my day while at work yesterday.

Here's another one but looks to be complete with all jags for $10 + $4.30 shipping. Listing ends this coming Friday.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/Outer...e:g:WFgAAOSwUYNaMahx

I missed that one!

*EDIT: Just looked at it again, this one is a .30 caliber. When I looked at it on Christmas Day I was a bit preoccupied.......

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
I missed that one!

Buy it, too. Have a spare.

It's cool that you found the rod kit that matches the era of your Stevens.

However, I do not recommend using it to clean your rifle. Multi-piece cleaning rods are notorious for bending and breaking under force at the joint, with the result being a damaged bore. If the joints aren't tightly mated, one edge of the segment can scratch the bore.

Get a one-piece rod for cleaning, keep the Ebay find for posterity.

Fritz, exactly what I'm doing with it. I normally use a Boresnake on everything.

I'm kind of regretting it but in the mid 80's I refinished the stock. While it looks fantastic still to this day I wish that I had left it alone being that it was passed down from my step great grandfather to my mother and then to me. I never met the man, he passed less than a month after I was born.