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How do you all clean the chamber/throat of your S308?


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How do you guys clean the barrel, throat, and chamber of your S308?  I have bore guides for my bolt actions and AR's.  Ive used an AR10 brush w/ chamber rod and the brush snaps off.  I think due to angle.  I love the AK platform but the fact that i cant get a proper cleaning rod to straight down the barrel is lame.  And yes i have a snake.  But I dont see that as a replacement for proper barrel cleaning.  

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Go from the muzzle end. Insert a bore brush, being careful not to damage the crown, scrub a few times back and forth (obviously with some solvent in there), never letting the brush exit the muzzle completely (helps to prevent the brush from nicking the crown). Next, use a chamber brush on one of those flexible "Chamber Maid's" (allows a decent chamber cleaning without bending a cleaning rod). Then, reinsert the cleaning rod, now with a "patch puller" attachment until the attachment is easily accessible from inside the receiver. Thread a cleaning patch through the eyelet of the patch puller, and pull the patch through the bore. Repeat until patches come out clean. Follow up with an oiled patch. Lastly, I recommend a quality one piece coated cleaning rod, as a cheap segmented rod can have a "lip" where two sections of rod meet, and, again, could potentially nick the crown. I highly recommend Dewey cleaning rods.

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Bore snakes dont do the same thing as rods, brushes, jags.  Proper cleaning may not be necessary on an ak.  But I would bet it's the difference between getting 20k rounds and 50k rounds through the gun.  Snakes are certainly "good enough" but do a thorough cleaning after using a snake and you'll see how much the snake leaves behind.  I use one piece ProShot polished stainless rods.  I have a pair for .22-.26 cal and another pair for larger cal.  Ive heard the coating on coated rods can scrape off in the barrel or on the crown.  I would not use a segmented rod unless it was an emergency.  I'll look into the chamber maids.  For simple barrel cleaning, my bore guide for my M-40 bolt gun works well being inserted through the reciever of my S308.  But there is a slight cant so the rod isnt enterring totally straight.  But itss clearing the throat and seems to straighten out by the time it hits the crown.  

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M1a or a M14 USGI Chamber brush ratchet wigget. 

 

Edited by HB:  Also maybe a M1 Garand 30.06 chamber brush attached to a similiar rachet butt stock tool would work also.  Just do not insert so far into the chamber.  Never tried it myself, but it should also work.

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Yeah, I generally just run a bore snake when I feel like cleaning it.  It may not clean quite as good as a real rod, brush, jag and patches, but I bet I would ruin the accuracy a lot faster cleaning from the muzzle with that stuff than I will by just using the boresnake to do a less thorough job.

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