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For cleaning the bore of my handgun barrels, I utilize an array of items ranging from a traditional steel rod w/ bronze bore brushes & brass jag tips to RamRodz© swabs to Bore Snakes. Of course, the first order of business is to always clean from the breech and avoid contacting the barrel crown with the rod. Typically I remove the bulk of the fouling with a few solvent moistened RamRodz© swabs, scrub the bore with a solvent or CLP coated bronze brush, then follow up with a jag tip and clean patches. So, what is the preferred method for using a jag tip? Does one push the patch the entirety of the bore allowing it to drop from the muzzle or is the jag & patch reversed back and forth within the bore in a mopping motion?  | ||
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Push through for me. Uses more patches but I make my own with old t-shirts, so no concern. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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For me, I push the jag and clp soaked patch 1/2 way through the barrel crown and then back to the muzzle end. Of course, after the use of a bronze rush with bore solvent — about 10 in n outs. The goal is a whistle clean barrel with a light coati g of clp. | |||
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I usually start with a jag and patch soaked in solvent and push through. Maybe twice if it’s bad. Then bronze brush a time or three. Usually one direction only, push through, take off attachment, remove rod and put it back on. But I’m not totally anal about it. It’s more that I’ve almost gotten brushes stuck going back and forth more than concern about ruining a barrel. After the brush, I go back to jags until it’s pretty clean. Then a clean jag, then an oily one (but oil happens later...I clean all parts then lube all parts). I almost never use the loop/slotted tips. Maybe if I wanted extra oil on the bore for storage. So to directly answer your question about back and forth with a jag...I actually don’t see how you could. The patch is likely to just be left in one place in the bore and you move the tip in and out. So it’s push all the way through. ------------------------------------------------ Charter member of the vast, right-wing conspiracy | |||
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This, for me.
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I've used and prefer this style of jag for years. The patch wraps around the jag and the teeth on the jag hold the patch in place, so you can scrub back and forth with it. Photo courtesy of Brownell's.  | |||
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Push through from the breach end only. | |||
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The idea of "scrubbing" to any effect with a cotton flannel material seems counter intuitive to me. I scrub with a bore brush and use patches to remove material in conjunction with solvents etc. But just like lubricants I am not getting involved in a gun cleaning methods debate, use whatever works best for you. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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I'll used a jag to move a rag soaked with Sweets or some other copper remover back and forth through the barrel, but always push my drying out rags though one time only and replace each time with a clean patch. | |||
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