General Categories > Help!

ar-15 cleaning question

(1/3) > >>

son of liberty:
i recently read in a magazine article that it is possible to damage the rifiling and barrel crown of an ar-15 by using a cleaning rod WITHOUT a chamber guide. is this true? if so, how can i tell if i did damage to my ar. because ive cleaned mine several times without using a chamber guide

FarmerRick:
Do you clean from the chamber end or the muzzle end?

If you clean from the muzzle end and by several you mean 4 or 5, I think you'll be just fine.  If you mean hundreds of times, well, you may not be just fine.

What do you use for a cleaning rod?  Is it steel, aluminum, or coated?

son of liberty:
ive probably cleaned about 50 times. owned it a little over a year. mayby put a 1000 or so rounds thru it. i have gone through both  the muzzle and chamber. my cleaning rod is either brass or plated aluminum, cant really tell

FarmerRick:
You're probably ok.  If the accuracy has not changed, then I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Always clean from the chamber end when possible(hard to do with a lot of .22's and semi-autos, levers and pumps). 
A chamber guide is nice to have I suppose, but certainly not a necessity.

Dan W:
More barrels are damaged  with cleaning rods than by shooting.

Use a Boresnake  and CLP on my AR15's after each range session, but I only really clean the barrel with a copper solvent every 1000 rounds or so, and I use a coated Dewey rod and only enter from the chamber.

No notable changes in accuracy after 1000 rounds down the pipe without a cleaning on my 18" RRA non chrome lined 1x9 barrel.

I just recently cleaned it with a foaming bore cleaner and copper remover...nothing blue on the patches... maybe I am just lucky

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page