Why not just use a bore snake? Allows you to clean from the breech without harming the crown.
Why not just use a bore snake? Allows you to clean from the breech without harming the crown.
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Aluminum or brass cleaning rods will not harm the crown. Stainless steel rods if your not careful may over time cause some wear.
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Over at RimfireCentral.com there are a coupe of jigs floating around with everything that you need to drill it out. Very precise setup. Easy to use. No charge to use it. Just pay for the postage to the next guy on the list requesting to use it. Very short time to get the assembly once you are on the list.
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Brass will also. Primer grit contains considerable silica which is very abrasive when embedded in a rod and drug over the crown. Also aluminum corrodes (that white powder on your old aluminum rod or home siding) producing aluminum oxide which is widely used as an abrasive. This is not something you want to run down your bore repeatedly.
Clean with a one piece SS rod from the breech using a rod guide if possible. Be careful to keep from dragging and banging your rod excessively on the crown as it exits the bore also.
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I have a couple of precision barreled Rugers that I have drilled the rear cleaning rod access hole. Problem is, I seldom use that hole due to the barreled actions being mounted in custom chassis that doesn't allow access to the hole without removing the action from the chassis. Removing the barreled action from the chassis disrupts the accuracy until a re-sight-in & tweak/play with the action torques so I seldom remove the action from the chassis if I can avoid it. About once a year I do a complete disassembly for a thorough cleaning but as a rule it stays assembled until I store for extended periods.
My daily, at the range, or for a quick barrel cleaning, work-around is to use a homemade bore snake made from some high test fishing line. On end of the line is weighted to drop through the barrel from the rear & the other end has a threaded brass tear drop that allows screwing on a barrel brush or a jag. (works good for a quick barrel clean up).
For a better cleaning (like after an extended range session, or for better lead removal) I use a .17 caliber cleaning rod. The .17 cal rod is a smaller diameter so fits in the barrel with more clearance. The only problem with the, 17 cal rod is the threads are smaller so I need to buy special (smaller thread) .22 brushes & jag for the .17 cal rod threads (or, I have in the past) re-threaded standard .22 brushes & jags to fit the .17 rod.
I have a custom (homemade) Delran front cleaning rod guide that snaps over the barrel muzzle & keeps the rod from dragging on the muzzle/crown front. That works great to prevent the rod from dragging on the barrel crown area.
The only modification that I have made to the .17 cleaning rod is to add a custom made handle with a smooth turning low drag bearing so the rod spins freely to follow the rifling more precisely.
For most .22 guns a standard .17 cal cleaning rod is plenty long enough. I am shooting longer barrels on my .22 precision guns so I needed to find a longer .17 cal cleaning rod.
I am not a ruger guy, but has anyone removed part of the stock, and found a screw in plug, then you do not need to remove it form the stock. You bed it, torque, never touch it again.
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